Twenty-four- year-old Imran Khan did what few of us have the courage to do. He went to the rescue of a girl being harassed on the street by three men. The trio killed him, and now his family bemoans this ‘thankless world’. REPORT ON P3 SING FOR THE MOMENT Shed your inhibitions and get on that stage. The Karaoke World Championship is calling, and tomorrow is your last chance to participate in the City. SECURE India were 371-5 in their first innings at lunch on the second day of the opening Test against New Zealand in the City on Friday. Cheteshwar Pujara was unbeaten on 151 at the break with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (61 not out). Though slowly, the runs came at regular intervals, which included a few boundaries. INDIA POSITION THE DECLINE AND FALL OF LANCE ARMSTRONG American cyclist Lance Armstrong will be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from cycling for life, US Anti-Doping Agency chief Travis Tygart said. The decision came after Armstrong announced he was dropping his fight against USADA’s charges that he used performance- enhancing drugs to win the most prestigious event in the sport from 1999 to 2005. Tygart told AFP that Armstrong would be stripped of all his results dating back to August 1, 1998. P16&17 HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER FAMILY GRIEVES ‘THE KIND SON’ FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012 HYDERABAD WWW.POSTNOON.COM WEATHER: A MIX OF CLOUDY AND CLEAR SKIES; 27°C 32 PAGES ` 3 The first step’s the hardest. It’s never more true in run- ning. One small step followed by the next... First the sweat, then the pain, and voices that tell you, “Stop! Stop! No more!” But when you shut your mind to these, and focus on the road ahead, you have embarked on a journey to a new you, a ‘you’ you thought never exist- ed. This Sunday it’s the Airtel Hyderabad Marathon and there’s no better occasion for a fresh start. And for those who are intent on it, we lay bare the what-why- how-where-and-when of running. LET’S GO! P28 P15 P31 N SHIVA KUMAR M ANIL KUMAR
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Twenty-four-year-old ImranKhan did whatfew of us havethe courage todo. He went tothe rescue of a
girl beingharassed on the
street by threemen. The trio
killed him, andnow his family
bemoans this‘thankless
world’. REPORT ON P3
SING FOR THEMOMENT Shed your inhibitionsand get on that stage. TheKaraoke World Championshipis calling, and tomorrow is yourlast chance to participatein the City.
SECUREIndia were 371-5 in their firstinnings at lunch on the secondday of the opening Test againstNew Zealand in the City onFriday. Cheteshwar Pujara was unbeaten on 151 at thebreak with skipper MahendraSingh Dhoni (61 not out).Though slowly, the runs came at regular intervals, which included a few boundaries.
INDIA
POSITION
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF LANCE ARMSTRONGAmerican cyclist Lance Armstrong will be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and
banned from cycling for life, US Anti-Doping Agency chief Travis Tygart said. The decision cameafter Armstrong announced he was dropping his fight against USADA’s charges that he used performance-
enhancing drugs to win the most prestigious event in the sport from 1999 to 2005. Tygart told AFP thatArmstrong would be stripped of all his results dating back to August 1, 1998.
P16&17
HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER
FAMILY GRIEVES‘THE KIND SON’
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012 HYDERABAD WWW.POSTNOON.COM WEATHER: A MIX OF CLOUDY AND CLEAR SKIES; 27°C 32 PAGES `3
The first step’s the hardest. It’s never more true in run-ning. One small step followed by the next... First thesweat, then the pain, and voices that tell you, “Stop!Stop! No more!” But when you shut your mind to these,and focus on the road ahead, you have embarked on ajourney to a new you, a ‘you’ you thought never exist-ed. This Sunday it’s the Airtel Hyderabad Marathon andthere’s no better occasion for a fresh start. And forthose who are intent on it, we lay bare the what-why-how-where-and-when of running.
LET’S GO!
P28
P15
P31
N SHIVA KUMAR
M ANIL KUMAR
city eventsFRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
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AROUND THE CITY YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES
World Cuisine festThe food festival brings together var-ious specialty cuisines from acrossthe world. The Festival includes a livekitchen where one can see dishesbeing prepared and plated. In addi-tion to this, a live dessert counterwill be open for Dinner only.Where: Saffron Soul,
Hotel Marigold,Greenlands
When: Ongoing,12.30am onwards
Contact: (040) 6736 3611
Punjabi food festivalHead to Taj Deccan for a PunjabiFood festival. The food festival offersa variety of Punjabi delicacies such assaag and makke ki roti. It is alsooffering various specialities. Where: Taj Deccan,
Banjara Hills,Rd No 1
When: August 24 onwardsContact: (040) 66663939
Satellite CityThe play is the kaleidoscopic worldof a motley bunch of characters andtheir struggle to make their livesabout something. Where: Ravindra Bharathi,
SaifabadWhen: September 2
7.30pm onwardsContact: (040) 2323 1245
Onam specialBring in the various Onam festivitieswith author Leni Varkey with a read-ing of her book Kuttan’s Dilemma.Also savour a variety of delicacies. Where: Little People Tree,
VikrampuriWhen: August 25,
11am onwardsContact: (040) 4020 8397
Baghdad WeddingThe play Baghdad Wedding dealingwith weddings in Iraq will be presented at Ravindra Bharati.Where: Ravindra Bharati,
SaifabadWhen: August 31,
7.30pm onwardsContact: (040) 2323 1245
National Silk ExpoThe Gramin Hastkala Vikas Samiti is
organising the ”National Silk Expo”from August 18 to 26. The expo willfeature various silk products.Where: Sri Sathya Sai
Nigamagamam,Srinagar Colony
When: Ongoing,11am to 9pm
Play timeThe play Birjees Qadar ka Kunbaawill be held at Nift Auditorium onAugust 24. The play is in Urdu.Where: Nift Campus,
MadhapurWhen: August 24,
7.30pmContact: (040) 2311 4537
Ethical hackingOakridge International School isorganising a 2-day ‘Workshop onethical hacking and online security’
by ethical hacker and computersecurity expert, Ankit Fadia. Where: Oakridge International
School, GachibowliWhen: August 25 and 26,
7.30pm onwardsContact: 1800 200 8171
Taj Khazana SaleFor six days, there will be a specialoffer on magnificent collection ofsarees, western ensembles, pashmi-nas, hand-picked costume jewellery,men’s garments and more..Where: Taj Krishna,
Banjara HillsTaj Falaknuma,Falaknuma
When: August 20-29,10am – 9pm
Contact: Taj Krishna (040) 6629 3248Faluknama (040) 6629 8600
BlindflyersThe German movie Die Blindgagner(Blindflyers). The movie is a tale oftwo girls Marie and Inga.The moviewill be screened at Goethe Zentrum.Where: Goethe Zentrum,
Banjara Hills,Rd No 3
When: August 24,6pm onwards
Contact: (040) 2335 0443
Image and imaginationA painting exhibition by variousartists titled Image and Imagination.Where: Kalakrithi Art Gallery,
Banjara Hills,Rd No 10
When: Ongoing,11am onwards
Contact: (040) 6656 4466
Painting exhibitionsTwo painting exhibitions, dealingwith cities and sustainability will bedisplayed at Vidyaranya High School.Where: Vidyaranya High School,
SaifabadWhen: Ongoing,
10am onwardsContact: (040) 2323 7789
Deep in the woodThe exhibition displays woodcut artprints by 22 artists.These art worksare from the woodcut workshop con-ducted by Earth Art Gallery. Where: Earth Art Gallery,
Banjara Hills,Rd No 12
When: September 2 onwards
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CREATING A PATH: A traffic policeman helps a handicapped man cross a busy road infront of the Andhra PradeshState Museum located in Nampally. SRINIVAS SETTYSHOWS
CRIME
GHMC
City YESTERDAY’S QUESTIONIS VVS LAXMAN’S RETIREMENT BEHIND THE LOW TURNOUT?
YES (A)
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TODAY’S QUESTIONARE WE BECOMING A MORE SUPERSTITIOUS CITY THAN EVERBEFORE?A) YES B) NO
us. The girl whom he tried tosave is safe and would not eventhink of us. My boy lost his life.We are the only losers,” says aninconsolable Sadiq Ali Khan,father of Imran Khan who waskilled by eve-teasers a few daysago.
Imran’s family, that includeshis aged parents, two sisters anda brother, have not observed Eid-Ul-Fitr. It was on last Sunday,Imran, 24, who earned for hiswhole family by making andrepairing sofas, was cruelly doneto death by three hoodlums forhis objecting to teasing a girl(Postnoon Aug 15).
On Sunday, Imran and hisfriend Asif, were returning homefrom Golconda Qila after work.At Langerhouse, Imran, a consci-entious youth, was outraged atseeing a hapless girl being sobrazenly harassed in public bythree men on a scooter. Imranasked the trio to stop it and gotheir way. The three turned theirire on the youth and closed in onhim. Seeing the scene turning
violent, locals gathered and sep-arated the two. Imran and hisfriend resumed their journey.
When they reached KarwanPanch Bhai Alawa, a vehicle hittheir bike from behind. Theimpact of this sent the two flying.While Ashif was getting up, hesaw the same trio hitting Imranwith a blunt weapon. He raisedan alarm and used his mobilephone to inform his parents and
the police. The attackers escaped.Imran, in a serious condition,
was shifted to Nims but the doc-tor attending him said the boyhad little chance of survivingsince his liver was badly dam-aged. After struggling for life, hedied by evening.
“He was our bread winner,”said Zahida Begum, his mother.“Look at him,” she points at herhusband, “He was a tailor but isnow in ill health and unable towork. Our son was a kind boy.
He had only studied upto highschool but was a responsible per-son. Who will care for us?” shedabs her eyes with her shawl.Imran’s sister is married and hisbrother, who is 12 years old, is inschool. Their hutment is just infront of the Toli Masjid. “No,” hismother said when asked if theyknew anything about the girl herson had saved. “Nobody contact-ed us. Not even a word of sym-pathy. This thankless world!”
Later, the police arrested thethree attackers — Chennaih,Jagdish and Mohit —Langerhouse inspector, NGRatnam said. Chennaih andJagdish belong to Ziaguda andMohit to Nalgonda District.Police inquiries revealed that thethree are part of a bootlegginggang.
Except for a cursory visit bythe MLA, nobody, not even thecommunity members, extendedany help to the hapless family. Asthis reporter comes out, Imran’s12-year-old brother runs up tohim and say he will take revengeon those who killed his brother.An elderly in the neighbourhoodasked, “who will bother to inter-vene when helpless people, maythey be girls or boys, get attackedon the road? Our society doesnot deserve such heroes.”
A forlorn family awaits justiceA youth who tried to save a damsel in distress in the street, where she was being harassed
by three men, was killed by them. The hapless family is left to fend for itself
In contradiction to what theofficials of entomologydepartment maintained this
year, that fogging was not aneffective method to controlmosquitoes, the GHMC hasprocured and officially inaugu-rated 20 new machines, in addi-tion to 91 which were alreadydistributed to various circleoffices.
Proven to be unscientific,this rather bizarre technique,
which may attract diseases hasbeen availed for several years.But with the recent statementsby senior officials of the ento-mology department, it was
widely believed that the GHMCwould not procure more ofthese machines and controlmosquitoes using other proce-dures. However, with themayor, deputy mayor and the commissioner formallyinaugurating them, severalquestions are being raised.
The new machines wereprocured at the cost of `58,000each. According to some offi-cials, even though these mightbe ineffective, people believethat fogging is helpful for controlling mosquitoes.
Imran, a conscientious youth,was outraged at seeing a hapless girlbeing so brazenlyharassed in public.
New fogging machines draw‘unwarranted’ attention
GHMC has procured and inaugurated new fogging machines.
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Imran khan
The column that teaches everyonesomething new about the way theCity functions.
1 Being a Good Samaritan canprove to be fatal.
When 24-year-old Imran tried tohelp a girl who was being eveteased, he was killed by the men.Now his family weeps silent tears.
2 You want to save money?Don’t spend on essentials.
This is what the GHMC seems tobelieve as its balance sheets showa favourable balance this year.Corporators allege though thatthis is because works are notbeing done.
3 Zilla Parishad school students can now rejoice.
With two private entities workingtowards improving the ZillaParishad school, students can nowheave a sigh of relief.
4 Cosmetic changes are goodenough before the CBD.
Authorities believe a cosmeticfacelift is good enough ahead ofthe upcoming CBD.
5Fogging areas to placateirate public.
Fumigation does more harm thangood. But with the publicdemanding it the GHMC has littlechoice in the matter.
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A perpetual dump yardLast year we had reported how the
once pristine Gunrock area hadturned into a dump yard, with peopledumping garbage on street cornerswithout a care. The GHMC closing adump yard in the area only led tomore problems. A year later, the situa-tion has barely improved as peoplestill covering their nose everytime theypass the makeshift dumping ground.
AUGUST 24, 2011
Burglars leave empty-handedBurglars made a vain bid to loot
an Indian Bank branch inMedipally Yacharam last night. Themarauders managed to break openthe main door and entered the bankbut they failed to open the locker.Probably after hours of efforts tobreak the lock, they gave up andleft, police said. The bank wasunguarded at night.
Step-father molests girlwhile wife was awayAminor girl was allegedly raped
by her step-father Gukam KhajaKhan on Thursday in Bandlaguda.Gukam, 32, reportedly pounced onhis 13-year-old step-daughter whenher mother was away. When thegirl’s mother learnt of the incidentshe lodged a complaint with theChandrayangutta police. The girlhas been sent for a medical check.
Girl riding bike knockeddown by school busAgirl riding her bike was fatally
knocked down by a speedingbus belonging to a private school atMehdipatnam this morning. TheHumayunnagar police have arrestedthe driver, confiscated the schoolbus and have begun investigation.The girl’s body has been sent to theOsmania General Hospital for a postmortem.
Eight injured in groupclash in VizianagaramEight people were injured when
two groups clashed in BJ Palemunder Garividi mandal of theVizianagaram district on Thursday.According to sources, the twogroups, belonging to Congress andTDP hurled stones at each other andclashed with sticks. The injured wererushed to hospital. The police hasregistered a case.
LAST YEAR... HERE CIVIC
NEWS BRIEFS
`350 crwas the overdraft the GHMC ran up
in June 2011. This year theCorporation’s finances haveimproved and the trend has
reversed.
5THINGS WELEARNT TODAY
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We are devastat-ed. The world
does not care for us.The girl whom my sontried to save is safeand would not eventhink of us. Myboy lost his life.We are the losers.
The GHMC is now in theblack (under draft).With `70 crore underdrawn, the corporators
at the helm take credit for this asproof of performance, while theopposition term it as ‘unspentmoney’ on works. Even as theofficials are mum lest this startsa new controversy.
Until June last year, the
GHMC was running an over-draft of `350 crore and in 2012the trend has suddenly reversed.Unlike last year, this year’sfinancial assessment revealedthat the Corporation was work-ing on a positive note in terms ofbalance in the coffers.
The positive change mostlyattributes this to efficiency inproperty tax collection this year.With almost doubling of the taxrates recently after property taxwas revised, the Corporation is
poised to be termed as a self sus-tainable entity, depending lesson the State government for itsfunding. However, rumour isripe that the GHMC does notwish reveal that it has prospered, as the funds sup-ported by the State governmentwould stop.
Some officials point out thatthe GHMC has also resorted to‘cost cutting’ in terms of waste-ful spending. While some in thedepartment of finance say thateffective fund flow manage-ment, field collections, constantmonitoring with efficient meth-ods of IT and good day-to-dayoperations are behind the suc-cess story. A senior official how-ever doesn’t find this surprising,as once the GHMC onceengages itself in projects therewill be a shift in the balancesheet again.
Although the juniorsattribute this to the ‘efforts ofthe commissioner’, MT KrishnaBabu does not want to speak onthe issue, as it may kick start arow. When Postnoon tried toseek an answer on this subject,the GHMC commissioner avert-ed the query.
While mayor Md MajidHussain is taking credit for thecurrent ‘financial stability’, thecorporators from theOpposition parties directlypoint out that this was onlybecause of ‘non release offunds’.
“When work is not beingdone and there is a completehalt, what can be expected?”questions, a floor leader.According to him, the GHMChas not released a single pennyfor work. “Several works arepending and the Corporation isnot releasing funds, how canone expect development, whenthis is the scenario?” he asks.
Is it financial stability ornon-release of funds?While the GHMC seems to be raking in the moolah and its coffers show a positivebalance, corporators allege that this is because funds are not released for work.
n Efficiency in property tax collection.
n Tax rates almost doubled.
n Cost cutting in terms of wasteful spending.
n Effective fund flow management, field collectionsand constant monitoring.
Chief Minister N Kiran KumarReddy, who is currentlycamping in the nation's capi-
tal, will formally meet PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh todayand hold discussions on various
issues especially the ongoing powercrisis that has crippled the normallife very badly.
Apart from this, according to theofficials at the chief minister’s office,the CM will also extend an invita-tion to attend the prestigious COP-11 being held in the City in October.The chief minister is also likely tomeet party president Sonia Gandhito appraise her of the present politi-cal situation in the State and statusof the party in the wake of inclusionof Roads and Buildings ministerDharmana Prasada Rao’s name inCBI chargesheet. Sources close to thechief minister told Postnoon that theCM would strongly pitch for mas-sive expansion of his cabinet afterremoving tainted ministers duringhis meeting with the party supremo.
CM awaits Delhi nodfor cabinet reshuffleThe CM wants to expand his Cabinet massively afterremoving tainted ministers from their posts.
encroachments in Circles 9 and10 which include sugarcane juicemachines, tea stalls, bunks, sign boards, temporary sheds,push carts, vendors, cross wallsand ramps which were con-structed on road margins andfoot paths.
The demolition drive wastaken up from Musheerabad ‘X’roads to Marriott Hotel viaKawadiguda and Musheerabad‘X’ roads to RTC ‘X’ Roads.
State agriculture ministerKanna Lakshminarayana has
denied media reports that Unionagriculture minister SharadPawar had expressed anger athim and other members of a del-egation he led, to draw the min-ister’s attention to problemsfaced by the State.
Talking to the media after hismeeting with Pawar, Kanna saidthat they had explained the prob-lems of AP farmers and theUnion minister had positivelyresponded. According to themedia reports, Kanna met theUnion minister leading a delega-tion comprising MPs KavuriSambasiva Rao, Nandi Yellaiah,V Hanumantha Rao, Killi KrupaRani, KVP Ramachandra Rao,Undavalli Arun Kumar, someagriculture scientists and leadersof farmers’ unions. NSS
Kannadenies Pawarwas angry
Will Coalgate bail outDharmana and others?
With the Opposition NDA demanding the PM’s resignation in the coalgate scam,focus has shifted away from those accused in the disproportionate assets case.
The ongoing coalgatescandal at the Centre,which stalled the pro-ceedings in both the
Houses of Parliament with adetermined BJP-led NDAdemanding nothing less thanPrime Minister ManmohanSingh’s resignation, is likely tofurther delay the decision on theState Roads and Building minis-ter Dharmana Prasada Rao’sresignation.
The Congress high com-mand, which has summonedChief Minister N Kiran KumarReddy to Delhi may advise himto hold on for some more timeto take a final call; at least till thedust over the coalgate settlesdown. Thus far, the coalgatescam seems to have come as ablessing in disguise toDharmana Prasada Rao,accused by the CBI in its fourthchargesheet filed in the dispro-portionate assets (DA) case.
Added to the delay in takinga decision by the CM, there isalso a stiff resistance from asmany as 22 of his Cabinet col-leagues demanding to challengethe CBI, which named two min-isters so far, includingDharmana Prasada Rao, besidesa number of bureaucrats, for theissuance of the 26 GOs during
the late YSR’s regime as a collec-tive decision of the Cabinet. Itwas Vatti Vasanth Kumar, min-ister for Tourism, who arguedthe other day that under Article163, none can challenge thedecisions taken by the Cabinet.He had also referred to pastSupreme Court directions in thisregard.
Many of Kiran KumarReddy’s cabinet colleagues,who were also members of erst-while YS Rajasekhara Reddygovernment, were of the firmopinion that all the 26 GOs werea collective decision of the thenCabinet, and if the governmentallows to prosecute DharmanaPrasada Rao, it would be open-ing a ‘can of worms’ putting
many of them in a dangeroussituation. They argued that thegovernment had already madethe mistake for not ‘saving’Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao,who is already cooling his heelsin the Chanchalguda jail.
As if this was not enough,the Supreme Court, respondingto a PIL in regard to the 26 con-troversial GOs had also slappednotices on as many as six minis-ters and eight IAS officers. Andthe Kiran Kumar governmenthad agreed to provide legal aid,barring to jailed ministerMopidevi Venkataramana Rao,leading him to face the flak frommembers of the BC community,to which the minister belongs.
Pushed onto the back-foot,
the chief minister chose to delaytaking a decision onDharmana’s resignation, fearinga possible fall-out among hisCabinet colleagues. As a result,the chief minister and PCC pres-ident Botsa Satyanarayana,decided to leave Dharmana’sresignation issue to the partyhigh command. The PCC chiefis already camping in NewDelhi apprising the senior partyleaders as well the State in-charge core group appointed byUPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi,of possible repercussions thatwould follow if Dharmana’s res-ignation is accepted.
Dharmana is not only asenior Congress leader, but alsoinfluential in north coastalAndhra and also belongs topowerful community, which ispre-dominant in that region.Already, the party had lost itsgrip in the Telangana region dueto the separate State agitationspearheaded by the TRS and didnot won even a single seat in theby-elections that were held after2009.
However, the party couldmanage to win two Assemblyseats of 18 for which by-elec-tions were held recently on eachin East and West Godavari dis-tricts. NSS
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Poets of The Fall, a Finnish rockband, will be playing inHyderabad on Sunday as part
of their Temple of Thought tour. Theband is famous for its alternative,melodic rock sound and is hailed asone of the best bands from Finlandtill date.
These Poets started out withvarious associated acts but afterbeing featured on the cult videogame classic Max Payne 2, the bandbit stardust. They were thrust intointernational limelight for theirpoem-song-ballad Late Goodbye,which was used as the endingtheme for the video game in 2003.
After the runaway success with
their first single, the band remaineda tight group of three with MarkusKaarlonen, Maarko Saresto and OlliTukiainen being accompanied bysession and tour musi-
cians through their many albumsand international tours so far.
Their debut album, Signs Of Life,was a rage in 2005 and they wereslated as the best newcomers in the
lot. The album is in itself a tributeand a reference to Pink Floyd’sinstrumental. After the debut alb -um, their independently rele asedsingle Carnival of Rust kept themsoaring through international mu -sic charts. Both the album and thesong were released separately, fol-lowed by their ‘cinematic rock’albums Revolution Roulette, TwilightTheater and Alchemy.
The music enjoys a great fanbaseand status on par with Apocalyptica,a sensational Finnish instrumentalband. Poets of the Fall has, since itsinception, carried its melancholictone and high-end production valuespreserved through each album butTemple of Thought is worth exception-al praise. It would be a sin to missthem on Sunday at Leonia Resorts.
Zilla Parishad High Schoolin Khajaguda is all set toget a facelift soon. Railtechnology leader
Bombardier Transportation, alongwith Infotech Enterprises, is goingto develop and upgrade the infras-tructure in this school.
The school, located nearBombardier’s Engineering CentreIndia (BTECI), educates around 600children aged between three and 15from underprivileged back-grounds.
Bombardier also plans toupgrade the basic infrastructure,such as sanitation and furniture, atthe school. This initiative aims toprovide a comfortable and cleanenvironment to help young stu-dents learn and thrive.
“Our goal at Bombardier is tocreate meaningful economic, socialand environmental benefits for thecommunities in which we operate,”said Josef Doppelbauer, chief tech-nical officer, BombardierTransportation. He adds, “By pro-viding a better learning environ-ment for these pupils, we are help-ing them to get a foot on the ladder
to better education. We are pleasedto invest in these young people toimprove their career prospects andin doing so, support the communi-ties in which we work.”
A special event was organised,which was attended byDoppelbauer; Jan Radtke, seniordirector, group engineering,Bombardier Transportation;Venkata Ramayanam, director,engineering centre (India),Bombardier Transportation; andAshok Reddy, president, global HRand corporate affairs, InfotechEnterprise, along with employeesfrom both companies. Teachers,
students and staffers of the schoolalso took part in the event.
Speaking at the function,Reddy said: “Started in 2002, animportant part of InfotechEnterprises Charitable Trust’s vis -ion has been to improve the qualityof education imparted to underpri -vileged children in schools whichlack basic amenities. We have beenseeking support from our esteemedcustomers, the local communityand the government. Today, theInfotech Enterprises trust supports10 schools around Hyderabad,educating a total of 5,400 under-privileged children.”
Secondary education ministerK Parthasarathy filed a peti-
tion in the High Court onThursday, challenging the ver-dict of the Economic OffencesCourt sentencing him to twomonths’ simple imprisonmentand a fine of `5.25 lakh.
The minister contended thatthe situation arose because hiscompany had incurred lossesand as there was no bank guar-antee. He claimed that he hadnothing to do with the case.
However, the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has argued thatthe minister had filed the peti-tion only to save his cabinet post.Stating that the lower court hadalready fined him `3 lakh for vio-lation of Foreign ExchangeRegulation Act (FERA) regula-tions, the EnforcementDirectorate has argued that theminister, who had not chal-lenged the verdict earlier, wasdoing so now because of politicalreasons.
Justice Raja Ilango, whoheard both sides, posted the casefor further hearing to Friday. NSS
Zilla Parishad schoolall set to get a faceliftTwo private companies have joined hands to provide a comfortable and clean environment for the schoolchildren.
Bards of rock set to enthral CityAlternative rock band Poets of The Fall will be performing in Hyderabad on
Sunday as part of their Temple of Thought tour.
LEGALParthasarathyfiles petitionin High Court
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city FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012 8REPORTER’S DIARY
KNOW YOUR LEADER
Butcher boys of electricity deptDo you know that butch-
ers and not pruners,are employed by theelectricity department
who know how to kill greeneryin the name of pruning to pre-vent plants entangling with livewires. It’s a sad sight that theselabourers come with crudeimplements and cruelly slashtrees and plants with no com-punction. Have they planted andreared a tree in their lifetime?They have neither training norpatience and often aggrieved res-idents have to pick up quarrelswith them.
The company ought to knowthat the City is getting denudedand our efforts should be not beto destroy or damage the greenery that gives us oxygenand shade. Postnoon suggestsengaging the services of naturelovers to guide the pruners. PK
PHONY LEADERSEach minister in our State has atleast two phone connections. Butthe irony is that not once do theyanswer calls on their phones. It’seither his/her minion or familymember who conveniently saythat the corporator, MLA or min-ister is away. There have beeninstances when the minister him-self answers the call and saysthat “he is not at home.” Even agrassroot leader like a corporatordoes not come on line for fear ofsolving some problems. And,there are the relatives who speakon behalf of the leader! One won-ders why they have phones inthe first place if they don’t wantto use them? SK
METRO ‘BEAUTY’What is the use of cosmeticchanges to the City for the sakeof world leaders? This questionwas posed to the metro commis-sioner and his reply wasthought-provoking. “When aguest visits our house, we go toa great length to beautify our liv-ing rooms even if the kitchensand the bathrooms are dirty. TheCity beautification project is onsimilar lines.” RR
RTI STANDS FOR RIGHT TO IRK!It is a fact that RTI is a weapon inthe hands of common man. IfHyderabadis are using this mostfreely against any one particularauthority, it is the GHMC. Senior
officials are secretly regrettingthis provision. There was a timewhen they were beyond publiceye, but alas!
An additional commissionerat GHMC responded to a queryregarding bus shelters. “Oh, thisis that RTI guy, isn’t he?” Theofficial rued at this provision ashe believes this is poison in thehands of the unscrupulous whouses it to spite authorities.
Another senior official com-plaints that this was proving tobe a big ‘headache’ as the datasought are not readily available.While yet another scowls andsneers, “We are haunted by theseRTI guys.” This is nothing lessthan a nightmare for the officials.
He also coined a new phrase forRTI (Right to Irk). True, somewill always misuse any provi-sion but the Babus have all alongbeen used to idling away time orindulge in malpractices. Nowthey are made to work, andtherefore, the complaints. s
SILLY RUMOUR, SILLIER JANATAWhat can one say of a City thatresponds to atrocious rumourslike the recent incident where ababy born has warned people toremain awake or else they woulddie? What can police or militarydo about this?
Wednesday night, witnessedsuch a silly incident across manyparts of the Old City. Some
police officials believe that coun-try’s enemies are devising newpsychological troubles to harassthe people.
After the false SMS led to amassive exodus of NE natives,this rumour gives rise to such asuspicion. In this technologicalera where all kinds of informa-tion is readily available, why dopeople behave like this? Here werecall what Frederick Nietzschesaid about mob mentality: indi-viduals are rarely insane butcrowds are. Let us debunk thiskinds of irrational behaviour. MS
CM, THE MOST HARASSED MAN?Everyone must be envying achief minister, but wait. KiranKumar Reddy, you should know,is the most harassed man in APtoday. Besides being called uponto deal with T, J and CBI, he alsohas to quell the internal war andfierce battle raging amongprospective to get into theCabinet bus.
Then another problem thathe has is the benefit of a pastexperience in handling such situ-ations. The situation is all rightfor wily old warhorses likeKarunakaran or Sharad Pawarbut Kiran lacks the experience inthis department. Now, with localbody elections approaching andquota politics in full swing, he isoften seen tearing at his hair inprivate but smiles when some-one looks at him. PK
Contributed by MdNizamuddin, Mohd Subhan,
Sudeshna Koka, RahulRamakrishna and P K Surendran
Whatever I speak, is from the heart: PithaniThe minister for social welfare says that he has nothing to lose in politics, hence isn’t scared to speak fromhis heart. The fee reimbursement scheme controversy has made him the most talked about man these days.
There is an old concept:Andhra Pradesh ministerfor social welfare Pithani
Satyanarayana knows moreabout the texture of fabrics thantricky politicking. This has puthim in difficulty many timesbecause he believes in what peo-ple say without a secondthought.
Pithani at the threshold of hisgolden age came to politics byaccident. He is the first personin his family to enter politics. He
had no god father.His ability to deal with any
situation endeared him toChief Minister N Kiran KumarReddy and his Cabinet colleagues.
Satyanarayana has becomethe most talked about man thesedays in the wake of the fee reim-bursement controversy.
He is heading the cabinetsub-committee created for thepurpose. “Whatever I speak, itcomes straight from my heart. Ispeak forthright because I havenothing to lose in politics,” saysthe minister.
PERSONAL LIFE He tells Postnoon that he hadnever wanted to become a politi-cian. It was MP Vijay KumarRaju who roped him into politics.Born with a silver spoon in hismouth, Pithani never had anywants. He loves to travel and hehas already visited 45 countries.He says the kind of infrastruc-ture they have is really amazing.
Pithani says that his childrenhave no enthusiasm for politics.
The CM often depends onhim to do the fire fighting. Howdoes he manage to handle people? Here is something for
the MBA (HR) students.“Whenever I meet a new person,I study him from all angles: hismanners, his gestures, his styleof presenting a topic. Then Iadapt a style that is comfortablefor the visitor, be it jovial, seriousor even solemn.”
He himself marks his nega-tive trait. “I trust people easilywhich many say is not a goodquality in politics,” he says. Anearly riser, Pithani has nevercomplained of the lack of time.The secret is to sleep late nightand get up early. You will haveenough time on your hands.”
Education: Bcom
Family business: Textiles
Spouse: P Anantha Lakshmi
No. of Children: Three sons and one daughter
Phone number :(040) 2345 3425
PK SURENDRAN
BusinessFRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
10FB UNVEILS SPEEDIER APP FOR iPHONE, iPADFacebook unveiled a new mobile app on Thursday for its users onApple iPhone and iPad, saying it would speed up the performanceof people accessing the world's biggest social network.
THUS SPAKE
It is important for me that we all stick toour commitments ... but I will encourageGreece to continue along its path ofreforms
ANGELA MERKELGERMAN CHANCELLOR
A South Korean court ruled on Fridaythat US tech giant Apple andSamsung Electronics had infringed oneach other's patents, ordering dam-age payments from both firms. Thecourt ruled that Apple breached twoSamsung technology patents, andordered it to pay 40 million won($35,242) in damages, court officialssaid. It also separately orderedSamsung to pay 25 million won forviolating one of Apple's patents,Yonhap news agency said. Samsungfiled a lawsuit against Apple in Seoulin April last year regarding infringe-ment of patents related to telecom-munications standards.
APPLE, SAMSUNG FINED
The US Federal Reserve said Thursdayit had sold the last of its investment ininsurer AIG, turning a $17.7 billionprofit for the public from its 2008bailout. The New York Fed's final saleof its American International Group-related assets made a net gain ofabout $6.6 billion, the central bankannounced. AIG, once the world'slargest insurance company, was close-ly involved in the risky derivatives atthe center of the 2008-2009 financialcrisis. The Fed and the US Treasuryrescued it from bankruptcy with arecord $182 billion bailout. TheTreasury still holds a 53 per cent stakein AIG's capital and plans to graduallysell its shares in an effort to recoverthe $24.2 billion remaining.
AIG NETS FED $17.7 bn
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$1.82 bnis Australian supermarket giantWoolworths full-year net profit.
Algorithmic Trading
From time to time,Algorithmic Trading(AT) or High FrequencyTrading hits the head-
lines, mainly due to regulatoryconcerns. The main concerns ofthe regulators being transparen-cy, fairness and systemic stabili-ty.
A couple of days back, theywere back in the news as theDelhi High Court issued noticesto the regulator, SecuritiesExchange Board of India (SEBI),the exchanges: NSE and BSE,the finance ministry and theRBI. The notices were sent as aresult of the plea ofIntermediaries and InvestorWelfare Association, which hasalleged that AT "discriminatesbetween rich and influentialbrokers and commoninvestors/retail investors andcreates inequality and finallycasts a deceptive data to com-mon investors and retailinvestors while trading inshares and securities on onlinetrading platforms of BSE andNSE".
DEFINITIONAccording to wikipedia, AT,also called automated trading,
black-box trading, or algo trad-ing, is the use of electronic plat-forms for entering tradingorders with an algorithm decid-ing on aspects of the order suchas the timing, price, or quantityof the order, or in many casesinitiating the order withouthuman intervention.
A special class of algorith-mic trading is (HFT), in whichcomputers make elaborate deci-sions to initiate orders based oninformation that is receivedelectronically, before humantraders are capable of process-ing the information theyobserve.
CHARACTERISTICSn High speed of trading due
to the use of high-speedcomputers
n Use of algorithms to processdata feeds and take deci-sions to buy and sell auto-matically
n Use of co-location services
CONCERNSThe International Organizationof Securities Commissions(IOSCO), reported in July 2011that AT also contributed to theflash crash of May 6, 2010 in theUS when the benchmark index,Dow Jones Industrial Averagecrashed and then quickly recov-ered.
In India too, in the last cou-ple of years, there have beeninstances where the marketshave lost a large amount ofmoney in a very short span oftime and then recovered quick-ly. Once such instance hap-
pened during the MuhuratTrading on Diwali day of 2011.
These events brought tolight the highly correlatednature of trading strategiesusing AT. This means that themarkets can quickly becomeone-sided. AT also results inhigh short-term volatility whichcould be detrimental to retail,non-algorithmic traders.
AT enhances the speed ofinformation dissemination andits supporters claim that it helpsin making the markets moreefficient. Large and multipletrades can be processed andcarried out quickly. omplicatedstrategies can be implementedthrough algorithms. 75% to 80%of total trades in the US and UKcan be attributed to AT.
These are also the very rea-sons why the Intermediariesand Investor WelfareAssociation has accused theregulators of being "silent spec-tators". AT gives unfair advan-tages to institutions or brokerswho have of co-location facili-ties and high-speed computerprowess which are not availableto the common man or ordinaryretail investors. SEBI, exchangesand the Ministry clearly need toput some thought into theadvantages of speed over fair-ness to all.
The writer is a seniorresearcher, Centre for Investment,
ISB, Hyderabad
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TECH EDGE
INNOVATION
Critics say ordinary investors are at a heavy disadvantage.
Hyderabad basedDipamkara WebVentures has launched –
www.i-lend.in, an online Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platformthat works as an exchangebringing borrowers and lendersand facilitates a financial trans-action between them through atransparent and organised pro-cess. i-lend combines traditionallending practices with social
networking to create a platformwhere borrowers and lendersinteract and transact. In fact inthe age of virtual world, it is aunique lending and borrowingplatform, which may soon kick-start a new way of lending andborrowing small loans.
The personal loan market inIndia is `84,000 crore in 2012and is expected to grow at 30per cent CAGR. The total mar-ket for informal lending inIndia currently is at `4-5 lakhcrore — 35 per cent of this man-
aged by friends and family i.e.about `1.75 lakh crore.
P2P lending model offerslow cost loans to borrowerswhile giving higher returns tolenders when compared to sav-ings bank and fixed deposits. i-lend is an alternate way of get-ting loans for borrowers while itoffers a new asset class tolenders that gives high returnswith medium risk. While banksoffer personal loans to individu-als, the cost of borrowing isquite high in terms of interest
cost and also the hidden costs.What makes the model
unique is the opportunity forlenders and borrowers to inter-act with each other to reach an“agreement point” for a loantransaction. In case of banks,the borrowers have no opportu-nity to negotiate their interestrate and lenders returns are alsofixed. Borrowers can apply forloans anywhere between`25,000 and `3,00,000 andlenders can lend as low as`5,000.
Peer-to-peer lending is in
nationFRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
11PALIAMENT DISRUPTION CONTINUES Parliament was disrupted for the fourth consecutive day today as theOpposition triggered uproar in both Houses demanding resignation ofPrime Minister Manmohan Singh over coal block allocations, which, accord-ing to a CAG report, caused a loss of `1.8 lakh crore to the exchequer.
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NEW DELHI: In a huge relief toUnion finance minister PChidambaram, the SC dismisseda plea for making him a co-accused in the 2G case, sayingthere was no prima facie materialagainst him of criminal conspira-cy of any pecuniary gain.
“No case is made out againstP Chidambaram and the specialleave petition filed against thejudgment of the special CBI courtis not liable to be entertained,” abench said.
The petition was filed byJanata Party chief SubramanianSwamy seeking a direction for aprobe against Chidambaram andfor making him a co-accusedalong with former telecom min-ister A Raja.
Dismissing his plea, the
bench said, criminal conspiracycannot be inferred merely on thesuspicion that there was a meet-ing for taking decision betweenthe officials of department of
telecom and two ministers —Raja and Chidambaram, whowas then also finance minister.
The bench said there was “noprima facie material” that
Chidambaram got any pecuniarybenefit nor was there any materi-al on record to prove that he, asthe then finance minister, abusedhis official position.
The judges said that the poormanagement in allocation ofspectrum cannot be said to be aproduct of criminal conspiracy.
This is the second time a judi-cial relief has come forChidambaram after a Delhi courton February 4 this year had dis-missed a plea of a co-accused inthe 2G case. Special CBI JudgeOP Saini had held thatChidambaram had not indulgedin any criminal conspiracy orderived any pecuniary advan-tage in the decisions.
Saini had said Chidambaramwas party to only two decisions
— keeping spectrum prices at2001 level and dilution of equityby two companies — which “arenot per se criminal”.
PTI
SC throws out Swamy plea on PCThe apex court dismissed the petition to making him a co-accused in the 2G spectrum case, saying therewas no prima facie material against him of any criminal conspiracy or procuring of any pecuniary gain.
Swamy to appeal
Janata Party presidentSubramanian Swamy
today said he will seek areview of the judgementdismissing his petition inthe 2G spectrum caseagainst Finance MinisterP Chidambaram. “It is abad judgement. TheCourt never allowed meto complete my submis-sions,” he told reporters.
Deadline extension?
The Supreme Courttoday said it will
consider extending itsAugust 31 deadline givento complete the processof fresh auctioning of 2Gspectrum cancelledlicences only if theTelecom Secretary givesan undertaking that itsjudgement would beimplemented.
13 killed as train hits vehicle carrying labourersBHUBANESWAR: Thirteen people werekilled and six others critically injured whena train rammed into a vehicle at anunmanned railway crossing in Sambalpurdistrict today. The vehicle was hit byRourkela-Bhubaneswar Inter-City Expresswhile it was trying to cross the track at anunmanned level crossing, an East CoastRailway (ECoR) official said.
Minor gang-raped in moving carNASHIK: A 14-year-old girl was gang-raped by three persons in a moving car inthe city, police said today. The Class IXstudent was forcibly taken into a car bythe three men in Chetna Nagar area onWednesday evening, who gang-raped herin the moving vehicle and later droppedher at the spot from where she waspicked, police said. They threatened heragainst telling about the incident to any-body. However, the girl mustered courageand informed her younger sister about theincident yesterday, who informed theirparents.
Gadkari lashes out at Bangladeshi migrantsIMPHAL: Illegal immigrants were to beblamed for triggering the mass exodus ofnortheastern people from southern states,BJP president Nitin Gadkari has said. “It isnot a Hindu-Muslim issue, but an issue ofillegal immigration and external threat. It isa shame that Indians were forced to leavetheir places of stay and studies under threatfrom anti-national elements,” he said.
NEWS BRIEFS
BEED: Four persons, including aUnani doctor, were detained bythe National InvestigationAgency in Beed district ofMaharashtra for interrogation,police said today.
A team of NIA andMaharashtra ATS officials hasbeen conducting searches at vari-ous places in the city sinceWednesday night, followingwhich it detained four persons,including Dr Rehan Shaikh(unani medicine practitioner),Wasim Chishti and ZakiuddinNizamoddin, yesterday, policesaid. The identity of the fourthperson was not available.
Four computers, a printer,some CDs and maps were seizedfrom Rehan Shaikh’s house inKazi Nagar area of city.
The investigating teams alsofound `26 lakh cash and about250 photographs of youths alongwith their biodatas from Shaikh’shouse and have been question-ing him about it, police sourcessaid. During the last two days,NIA officials raided four housesin different areas of the city andseized some passports and otherdocuments, police sources said.
PTI
NIA arrestsfour inMaharashtra
TERROR LINK
nation FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012 12SMUGGLINGENVIRONMENT
MUZAFFARNAGAR: A youthopposed to his sister’s relation-ship with a boy allegedlybeheaded her and threw thehead in her lover’s house. Kala,23, beheaded his 19-year-old sis-ter yesterday and threw her headin her 20-year-old boyfriend’shouse in Bihari village, SP (city)Raj Ka mal Yadav said.
The girl’s family was oppo -sed to the relationship. Kala yes-terday entered into a heated arg -u ment with his sister and laterbeheaded her.
Police has registered a caseagainst Kala, who is abscondingalong with his other familymembers. Tension prevailed inthe area after the incident andsecurity has been tightened inthe village. PTI
Youthbeheads sisterfor honour
MUMBAI: Brikesh Singh(right) is getting ready to climbanother tree, this time inside atiger reserve, and stay there fora month — not for fun or toavoid the big cats but to drawthe young generation’s atten-tion to saving the environment.
On September 1, the 32-year-old Gr eenpeace campaigner,born and brought up in theslums of Mumbai, will climb atree on the site of a proposedpower plant inside the bufferzone of the Tadoba tiger reservein Maharashtra’s Chandrapurdistrict.
Singh, a cyclist and climber,has already built a tree houseand equipped it with a solarcharger and a laptop — his win-dow to the outside world.
He will be perched atop thetree throughout September andwill climb down only October 1— the day the Convention onBiological Diversity takes off inHyderabad. The conventionbrings together countries for thedevelopment of national strate-gies for conservation and sus-tainable use of biological diver-sity.
“I will be in the tree housearound 20 feet above the groundin the buffer zone of Tadobatiger reserve and I will spreadawareness about the issuesthrough Facebook, Twitter and
blogs,” Singh said.Climbing is child’s play for
Singh. On October 11 2009, justbefore the climate summit inCopenhagen, Singh scaled theroof of the British Parliament.“While parliamentarians werecontinuing with their business, Iunfurled a banner which read‘Change the Politics - Save theClimate’. It is high time thedeveloped world started lead-ing the way in cutting carbonemissions instead of playingdirty politics,” he said.
In 2007, he had climbed a260-foot smokestack of a ther-mal plant in Kolaghat in WestBengal and painted ‘Smoking
Kills’ on it. “I was arrested withfive other activists and jailed forraising an alarm against climatechange. Our case still drags onin the Calcutta High Court,” hesaid.
Last month, he and anotheractivist tried to “wake up” thepeople of Bangalore about axingof trees - by - what else? —climbing a tree. “We spent 24hours on the tree to raise aware-ness and gather support.”
About his other projects,Singh said: “I just travelledacross the country to find outwhat the true cost of electricityis. I also came across a lot ofheart-breaking stories where
tribals and farmers are gettingdisplaced, forests gettingdestroyed and animals losinghabitats. All this because of ourgreed for coal,” he said.
On to his upcoming endeav-our in Chandrapur, Singh is yetto figure out the logistics of stay-ing on a tree for a month.“Earlier, I planned to stay on thetree 24X7. But since this is amonth-long project, I’m yet tofigure out details such as build-ing a washroom in the treehouse or climbing down the treedaily,” he said. So well known isSingh for his efforts that MTVhas made a series of short filmson him. IANS
Singh readies to climb anothertree, this time for big catsHe will climb down only on Oct 1, when the biodiversity meet begins in Hyderabad.
An ancient bronze statue ofNataraja bought by the
National Gallery of Australiafrom Indian-American artefactdealer Subhash Kapoor, who isin custody in Tamil Nadu for hisalleged role in idol thefts, hascome under scrutiny.
63-year-old Kapoor had soldthe Lord Shiva statue, which isnow being suspected to be one ofthe works alleged to have beenstolen, to the National Gallery ofAustralia (NGA) in 2008.
The 128.5 centimetre-highbronze idol depicting Shiva asNataraja, Lord of the Dance, issaid to be dated from the 11th to12th centuries.
Commenting on the statue,NGA Director Ron Radford said“the gallery had done all therequired provenance checksbefore acquiring the piece fromKapoor, owner of the Art of thePast gallery on MadisonAvenue.”
“As with all leading art insti-tutions around the world, thegallery is committed to strict duediligence when acquiring worksof art, particularly with regard todetermining provenance,”Radford said in a statementrecently. NGA officials had alsomet officials from the IndianHigh Commission this month.However, they had been unableto obtain any official commentfrom police in India.
“The gallery has commencedplans to undertake a comprehen-sive re-examination by a panel ofinternal and external art expertsof the supplied documentationas well as the provenance ofwork acquired from Kapoor, asmany international galleries arealso doing,” the statement said.
Kapoor was arrested inGermany last October for smug-gling antique idols allegedlystolen from temples in TamilNadu and Kerala. He had beenextradited to India and was incustody in Chennai. PTI
PENITENCE WITH A PURPOSE
Mohammad Salim Bhurakhan Pathan, an inmate of Sabarmati Central Jail, paints an environmentally-friendlyidol of Lord Ganesha from natural clay in Ahmedabad. These idols of Lord Ganesha will be put on sale and theprofits from the sales will be credited to the Prisoner’s Welfare Fund. AFP/SAM PANTHAKY
Row overrare Shivastatue inAuz gallery
CRIME
I will be in thetree house
around 20 feetabove the groundand I will spreadawareness throughFacebook,Twitter andblogs.
Brikesh SinghGr eenpeace activist
WorldFRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
13SUN RESPONSE TO GAG ON HARRY PICS: HEIR IT ISThe Sun, Rupert Murdoch’s popular British tabloid, on Friday publishednude photographs of Prince Harry despite being asked not to by the royalfamily. A picture of the nude Prince appeared on the front of Friday’s edi-tion next to the headline “Heir it is”.
IRAN-IAEA TALKS TODAYIran and the UN nuclear watchdogwere due in talks Friday to make afresh push to patch up relations asTehran feels the heat from sanctionsand amid fevered speculation ofimminent Israeli military action. Butwith the International Atomic EnergyAgency having this year failed in astring of other meetings, includingin Tehran, to get Iran to grant accessto nuclear scientists, documents andsites, hopes were not high. “I cannotsay at this time that I am optimisticabout the outcome of the comingmeeting,” IAEA head Yukiya Amanosaid in Finland on Wednesday.
Reaching out to the Sikh commu-nity, US first lady Michelle Obamamet with families of those killedin the Aug 5 massacre at the gur-dwara in Wisconsin to offer hersupport. “It’s my honour to behere with you. I’m sorry it’s underthese circumstances, but I amanxious to meet with the familiesand lend whatever support I can,”she told them as in a privatemeeting on Thursday evening.She spent about 30 minutes withthem, moving from family to fam-ily to offer her condolences.
MICHELLE REACHES OUT
NUMEROLOGY
$123mnis the estimated cost of holding theRepublican convention in Tampa,where Mitt Romney will formallyaccept the GOP nomination as its
presidential candidate.
It is completelywithout founda-
tion to suggest thatthis process ... repre-sented an attemptat a ‘cover up’ byanyone in theReserve Bank
Glenn Stevens,Australian central
bank governor
China bridge collapsekills threeBEIJING: Three people werekilled and five injured when aneight-lane suspension bridge innortheast China collapsed early onFriday, only nine months after itopened, state media said. Thebridge, part of an airport express-way in Harbin city, only opened lastNovember after two years of con-struction that cost 1.9 billion yuan.
Police probe threatagainst Todd AkinWASHINGTON: The US CapitolPolice were investigating a possiblethreat against Todd Akin, the con-gressman who triggered an uproarwhen he said a woman’s body canprevent pregnancy in cases of rape.“The US Capitol Police are currentlyworking with the FBI on a reportedthreat against Congressman Akin,” aspokeswoman confirmed.
New Zealand ‘runawaymillionaire’ jailed WELLINGTON: A New Zealandman who fled to China after a bankmistakenly deposited millions ofdollars into his account was jailedfor four years and seven monthsFriday. Hui “Leo” Gao and his then-partner Kara Hurring skipped thecountry when Westpac bank acci-dentally put NZ$10 million intoGao’s account in April 2009.
Priest warns of risk inpope’s Lebanon visitROME: The pope’s safety couldbe at risk during a planned visit toLebanon next month, a Jesuit priestwho was recently forced to leaveSyria warned on Wednesday. PopeBenedict XVI is due to visit Lebanonfrom September 14-16 to bring amessage of peace and call forgreater respect for religious pluralism.
NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON: US militaryplanners are studying contin-gency plans for a potentialmission in Syria withoutprecedent — securing theregime’s chemical weapons inthe midst of a raging civil war,officials and experts said.
No military action is immi-nent at the moment, accordingto officials, but the Pentagon isgrappling with an array ofhellish scenarios that couldemerge as the conflict esca-lates, with the Damascusregime possibly losing controlof its chemical arsenal.
While US military plan-ning in the past has focused onsearching out weapons of massdestruction in the hands of ahostile government, the situa-tion in Syria raises the possibil-ity of stockpiles falling into thehands of militant groups ordesperate members of a threat-ened regime.
“This is totally new territo-ry historically. Never in historyhas a WMD-armed countryfallen into civil war,” saidCharles Blair of the Federationof American Scientists. “Thishas never happened,” he toldAFP. The US experience inIraq, in which an American-ledforce failed to secure some sen-sitive conventional weaponssites after the 2003 invasion,serves as a cautionary talegiven the complexities inSyria, where reliable intelli-gence is even harder to comeby, Blair said.
President Barack Obamahas suggested the use of chem-ical or biological weaponscould trigger US military inter-vention.
But for the moment, theadministration says PresidentBashar al-Assad’s regimeretains control of the chemicalarsenal and that there are noindications it is about to usethe lethal weapons.
US special operationsforces would likely play a cen-tral role in any plan to securechemical weapons, though alarger conventional force couldbe required to provide enoughmanpower to safeguard the
sites, the official added. “It’spossible it would not be SOF,depending on what the situa-tion is.”
As the US monitors thechemical arsenal with the helpof spy satellites, officials haveto take into account “whetherthe regime intends to use it,whether it falls into the wronghands and whether there’s acollapse of security around thesites,” according to the official.
Syria’s chemical weaponsstockpile is the biggest in theMiddle East. Syria has hun-dreds of tonnes of chemicalagents, including sarin and VXnerve agents. AFP
SYRIAN CRISIS
WMD stock keyto US strategy
A young girl, surrounded by destruction, caused by fighting in the Babal-Tabbaneh neighbourhood, plays with her bicycle in the Lebanesenorthern port city of Tripoli. AFP
Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, includingtonnes of sarin and VX, is the biggest in West-Asia.
JUDICIAL REPRIEVE
Jayant Patel’sconvictiondismissedSYDNEY: An Australian courton Friday quashed an Indian-born surgeon’s manslaughterconvictions over the deaths ofthree patients, saying there hadbeen a miscarriage of justice inhis trial.
Jayant Patel, dubbed “DrDeath” by the Australian media,was jailed for seven years in July2010 after a jury found himguilty of criminal negligenceresulting in the deaths of threepatients and permanent injury toa fourth.
But the High Court on Fridaydismissed the convictions andordered a retrial, saying prosecutors radically changedtheir case on the 43rd day of the58-day trial in a way which ren-dered much of the evidence irrel-evant.
“The prejudicial effect on thejury was not overcome by thedirections given by the trialjudge,” the High Court said.
“A substantial miscarriage ofjustice occurred.”
Patel was convicted inQueensland’s Supreme Court ofthree counts of manslaughterand one of unlawfully doinggrievous bodily harm over surg-eries he conducted at theBundaberg Base Hospitalbetween 2003 and 2004.
At the time, prosecutors suc-cessfully argued the operationswere either unnecessary or inap-propriate.
AFP
Dubbed “Dr Death” bythe Australian media,he was jailed for sevenyears in July 2010 aftera jury found him guiltyof criminal negligence.
PART II
CommentFRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
14HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTSEven with an international convention on biodiversity round the corner,the City continues to neglect the most basic public amenities. While theroutes the VIPs are expected to take are being spruced up, the rest of theCity is ignored. A denizens’ conference... Someone?
Businessbloom in an
unlikelyMexico city
Martha Messina, an eco-nomic development
specialist, waits at thesecurity gate of an India-style
call centre in this city across theborder from Texas. She says thatthe company, Genpact, and oth-ers like it are thriving in north-ern Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez —the same place that at one time
seemed to be ground zero forMexico’s brutal cartel war.
“There’s a lot of life in the busi-nesses here, but [people] only
talk about the negative,”Messina says. More than 10,500
killings since 2008 in Juarez — acity of about 1.3 million people— made it one of the deadliestcities in the world. The murder
rate has fallen substantially since2010, but the bad reputation is
not likely to fade fast. Juarez,however, is not an economic
Siemens and Foxconn all havemajor manufacturing operations
here. McDonald’s, Chili’s,Arby’s and other chains have
opened up restaurants, cateringto the working population. Even
as Mexico’s cartels smuggledrugs across the US border and
local turf-battling gangs prey onsmall business owners, big com-panies and factories continue toexpand their operations. Majorbusinesses, including multina-
tionals and outsourcing offices,appear unthreatened by the
drug war violence. It’s anuncomfortable coexistence. Now
as the killings have slowed inrecent months, local executives
hope the city’s economy willhave a chance to flourish. That’s
part of a complex story inMexico, Latin America’s second-
largest economy, after Brazil.
GLOBAL POST
Two weeks ago, I wroteabout an extraordinarywoman who had been
beaten and abused her entirelife, ended up a housekeeperand then, with a bit of externalnurturing, blossomed into a suc-cessful marketing executive in alocal company.
I wrote then that often,sadly, we don’t want to help acook or driver to rise in life. Wejustify our unwillingness to helpthem assuming there is nothingwe could do for them anyway,that there is no way to changethe status quo, as the person inquestion lacks the education,the desire, the ambition, maybeeven the intelligence to do so.
I also said that if you are oneof those who make theseassumptions, I’m here to proveyou wrong. I made a strongcase for this two weeks ago.This week, I make it again.
Meet Rajesh. When I methim, some six years ago, he wasperhaps 30 years old and wasmy driver in Mumbai — a goodsafe driver. But he had lots offlaws: coming late to work,using the car for personal usewithout permission, etc. and Istarted to feel he wasn’t theright man for the job. Yet he wasso deferential — so shy, soscared of my authority; it washard to tell if there was anythingelse in him but the ability todrive.
One day he was driving meto work and I asked how mykids behaved towards him
when he was driving themsomewhere when my wife nor Iwould not be in the car (I try toteach my kids to treat everyonewith respect and wanted tomake sure that those courtesiesextended to our driver, too).Rajesh said they treated himpolitely. Then I asked him abouthis kids. He confessed his kidsweren’t doing so well: his eldestson was drifting, not gettinggood grades. His daughter wasa bit distant from him. He askedme for advice, and I gave some,and a week or two later he saidthe advice had helped him, andhis kids were doing better.
From that point, we startedto talk more. It turned outRajesh hadn’t always been adriver, but a series of events hadpushed him into it years earlier,and he saw no way out. But Idid see a way out for him.Rajesh, it was becoming clear,was a man of high intelligenceand exceptional ethics. He wasjust lost: he had no one to men-
tor him, and hadn’t a clue howto behave professionally, or howto treat his wife or kids.
I asked him if he was inter-ested in becoming somethingmore than a driver, and he saidyes. I told him I was willing tohelp him if he agreed to stick tofour things, and that if he did, Iwould, after my three-yearemployment contract was up,help him get a job outside ofdriving where he could moveup and build a real career. Thefour things were read and dis-cuss a series of books I wouldbuy him; spend an hour everynight learning to use a computerI would get him; discuss on ourdrive home business issues Ihad at work, and how I resolvedthem; and, spend all his freetime with his wife and kids,instead of his friends. Heagreed.
I asked him what kind ofbook he would like for his firstread: “a love story”, he said. Igot him Charlotte’s Web, a love
story between a pig and a spi-der. He read it, and his insightsinto it were spot on. Next wasHemingway’s A Farewell toArms. He consumed it in aweek. Over the years, the booksgot more sophisticated; ourtalks about business more in-depth; his computer proficiencyexcellent; his command ofEnglish stronger; his relation-ship with his family better.
When I left the company, Igot Rajesh a job in a company.Unfortunately, the companyfolded and I was 10,000 milesaway and unable to help himget a new job. But when Ireturned to India two yearslater, and tried to locate Rajesh, Iwas sure I would find him in adriver’s job. I guess I ended upguilty about making sillyassumptions about people:Rajesh hadn’t just gotten him-self a new job, he had movedup... and up... and up. Today,he manages some 40 people,and makes six times what I usedto pay him. He is no longerpoor: he is middle class. And hiskids are excelling, and will not, Iassure you, be among India’simpoverished when they growup.
This weekend, I am meetingRajesh to discuss investing in acompany he now plans to start.And I think he’s going to makeme a lot of money. Maybe, justmaybe, your next investmentshould also be in your driver, or cook. The returns are astro-nomical.
Disruption of Parliament, a fruitless waste of public money
The business of the Parliament has been stalled as the government and theOpposition are at odds about how the ‘coalgate’ should be dealt with.
Crucial Bills and hundreds of amendments are stuck in the stalemate. Crores are spentevery day on the logistics and security to ensure the exalted representatives show up at
their respective houses, only to see them trooping out after going through the proce-dural charade of making their ‘presence felt’ in the chaos. Several government depart-
ments are tied up doing research and analysis work for their ministries so that Housequeries can be answered — all to go waste. Other than wasting time and resources,
what purpose does disruption of Parliament serve? For all the might the MPs assume,they are nothing but employees of public who are paid from exchequer to safeguard
public interests. In their cheap scramble to claim moral high ground and hog limelight,it is this fundamental duty that is being neglected.
The fall of Lance Armstrong
Yesterday, the legendary cyclist LanceArmstrong decided not to fight a case
brought against him for doping. He decid-ed that “enough was enough” and afteryears of fending off probes he would giveup the fight to concentrate on bringing uphis kids. That’s all very admirable, butLance is also being stripped of his sevenTour de France titles, and is leaving thebattered sport of cycling in tatters.Whether the sport will survive the loss ofits most iconic figure remains to be seen.
EDITORIALS
READERS’ VIEWSWe invite you to write to us comments, suggestions, viewpoint or just about anything to [email protected] or#1246, Level 3, Jubilee Casa, Road No 62, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad – 500 033 or even by way of a call on 4067 2222. Editor: Dean Williams
Continuouseffort, not
strength or intelli-gence, is the keyto unlockingour potential.
Winston ChurchillFormer British PM
ANONYMOUS ALIEN
JUDGING BOOKSMaybe, just
maybe, yournext
investmentshould also
be in yourdriver, or
cook ornanny.
The returnsare astro-nomical.
Shed yourinhibitions
and get on thatstage. The
Karaoke WorldChampionshipis calling, and
tomorrow isyour last
chance to participate
in Hyderabad.
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5 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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7 BELIEVEJustin Bieber
8 UP ALL NIGHTOne Direction
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1. BARFIBarfi!
2. MASHALLAHEk tha Tiger
3. CHHI-CHA LEDARGangs of Wasseypur
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5 KAALA RE Gangs of Wasseypur
6. PHIR LE AYA DIL Barfi!
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8. SAAWALI SI RAATBarfi!
9. YEH JISM HAI TOH KYAJism 2
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15GOT WHAT I DESERVED: RONAN KEATING Ronan Keating admits he "deserved" what happened to him after his wife left himfollowing a seven-month affair. The Boyzone singer had secretly romanced 27-year-olddancer Francine Cornell behind the back of his then wife Yvonne in 2009, and wasunable to make their marriage work, something Ronan blames himself for.
Bathroom singers of theworld, unite! The finaleof the Hyderabad leg ofthe Karaoke World
Championships (KWC) trials ison at Ohri’s 1857 on Saturday,and they’re looking for you.
Karaoke has always been apopular way to unwind after along day at work, but the trendhas caught on in India only inthe past eight to ten years. Now,almost every pub dedicates aday of the week to karaoke, andpeople are just lapping it up. VSurender, franchisee head for10D (pan-India operations)says, “We were the first pub inHyderabad to start karaokenight some 10 years ago. Everyweek, we have a huge crowdparticipating, including a lot ofcelebrities.”
Indeed, it has gained such a
following that when Indiaentered the Karaoke WorldChampionship last year for thefirst time, the response wastremendous. Lalit Kewalramaniof KWC India said, “Last year,we held trials in nine venues innine cities. It was mostly regularpatrons who participated.” Thisyear, it has only gotten bigger.“Our outreach is better than lastyear. We are holding 150 venuetrials in 15 cities this time round.Participants get certificates,freebies and trophies. So far,about 75 per cent of the venuetrials are over. Around 1,700people have already participat-ed across the country. By theend of the trials, we are expect-ing about 2,000-odd people tohave participated,” he added.
Around 30 countries willparticipate in the KaraokeWorld Championship finals,which will be held in Finland.Megha Girish from Hyderabad,
who had reached the top 10 inthe girls’ category last year, saidof her experience, “I had justmoved to Hyderabad the daybefore the city finals, whensome friends convinced me toparticipate. I won, went on tozonals and the finals. Gettingthere was a definite surprise.The scale of the competition wasamazing. The stage, the partici-pants… it was like - whoa! this isincredible!”
And if you think thatEnglish songs were the onlyway to go, think again. “Thereare fewer people who sing inregional languages and Hindi inmetros. But in places like Patna,Chandigarh and even Delhi,Hindi songs are very popular.”Karaoke jockey (KJ) Anand,who has been hosting karaokenights in several cities for yearsnow, chimes in, “Regionalsingers are few, but Hindi songsare popular in Hyderabad.”
In his experience, lovesongs, like Adele’s Rolling In TheDeep and Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours,are always the most popular.“The new generation is alsofond of rock. There are alsosome good rappers out there. Infact, one of the finalists from avenue trial in Hyderabad is arapper,” says Anand. So, whatare classic karaoke numbers?“To be honest, every time I gofor a karaoke night, I amamazed at the range of songspeople choose to sing. Therearen’t really any standard songsas such,”opines Megha.
Even if you’re not confidentabout your solo singing skills,consider going with a group offriends. McDowells has whatthey call a “Frenzy Round”, andthe winning group of friends getto accompany the finalists toFinland to cheer them on.
So give it a shot or cheer thesingers on.
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STRESSED MICE SIRE ANXIOUS DAUGHTERSResearchers at the Tufts University School of Medicine have evidence fromexperiments on mice to support that some traits pass to daughters andescape sons altogether. Adolescent mice exposed to chronic social stress,exhibit anxiety and poor social interactions through adulthood.health
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19
Locked in for lifeWhen Tony Nicklinson’s plea for euthanasia was turned
down, the locked-in syndrome patient gave up on life.We speak to City experts on whether euthanasia should
be granted in extreme cases like Tony’s.
Imagine a life where you hadno power or control to doanything. Not even speak,let alone move about. All
you could probably do is moveyour eyeballs. You can’t run, youcan’t walk, you can’t voice youranger, cry out in pain or evensay “I love you” to your wifeand kids. Sounds terrible, right?That is exactly what TonyNicklinson had to deal withsince 2005. A once successfulbusinessman who led an activelife and loved spending timewith his wife and two daugh-ters, Tony suffered a stroke on abusiness trip to Athens, whichleft him with the locked-in syn-drome. For the last seven yearsthe British citizen was forced tolead life in a vegetative statewith him being completely inca-pable of performing even basictasks. All he could do was com-municate with his family using acomputer that he could controlwith his eye movements.
Unwilling to lead life anylonger in such a state of indigni-ty, Tony requested the court togrant him the right to euthanasia(mercy killing). However, he losthis legal battle and expectedlywas devastated at being forcedto continue a life of misery.
When the court ruled againstTony it was like he gave up onlife itself. He stopped eating andeven refused treatment for thepneumonia he had contractedwhich ultimately led to his deathon Wednesday evening.
His life might have had atragic end, but there are several
other people out there who aredealing with a similar situation.Another British man ‘Martin’ toolost his legal battle for euthana-sia for the same reasons on thesame day as Tony. Life with thelocked-in syndrome is tough, tosay the least. “The locked-in syn-drome occurs when there is a
stroke to the pons area of thebrain. This is a crucial area andwhen blood supply to this partof the brain is reduced it resultsin locked-in syndrome. A patienttypically will find that he cannotmove his limbs, can’t breathe onhis own initially and will needventilator support for a whileand can’t talk but can under-stand what is being said. Hisbrain will be functioning nor-mally but he will only be able tomove his eyeballs,” says DrSudhir Kumar, senior consultantneurologist at Apollo Hospital.
In the event of brain death itis permitted to take a patient offlife support as it is accepted asdeath. “But in the case of locked-in syndrome with the brainfunctioning normally the patientis completely conscious. Manypeople who are independentand have a lot of self-respecthate being dependent and preferdeath. However, I don’t thinkeuthanasia is right. It is like sui-cide. Locked-in syndrome mightbe a severe ailment but the per-son is still alive. If we allowparalysed people to choosedeath, then where are we head-ing? It’s like saying that theworld is only for healthy peo-ple,” opines Dr Sudhir.
He goes on to add, “In TonyNicklinson’s case he might havebeen depressed. Such patientsshould be provided emotionaland physical support. Peoplemight feel euthanasia is alright,but I don’t agree.”
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Sleep is essential forlivingI need to sleep now! Iam dying to sleep.Many of us haverepeated this statementtime and again. Studies have proventhat one could go without eating forweeks without any problem but notsleeping for more than 11 days at astretch can prove to be quite fatal.
Giacomo PylariniGiacomo Pylarini was one of the peopleresponsible for reducing the spread ofsmallpox. Giacomo Pylarini created thevariolation which was a form of vaccine.Therefore, Pylarini is considered the“Father of Immunology”. He was born inCefalonia, Greece in 1659 and died inPadua, Italy in 1718. He was the first touse the smallpox vaccine outsideEurope.
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A patient with locked-in syndromehas no control overhis body and can onlymanage to movehis/her eyeballs.
health FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012 20
WASHINGTON: It wasn’t abigger brain but a more sophisticated wiring that gavehumans the edge to evolvebeyond their closest cousins, thechimps, says a new study.
A University of CaliforniaLos Angeles (UCLA) study pin-points the unique human patterns of gene activity in thebrain that could shed light onhow we evolved differently thanour closest relative, the journalNeuron reports.
These genes’ identificationcould improve understanding ofhuman brain diseases such asautism and schizophrenia, aswell as learning disorders andaddictions, according to aCalifornia statement.
“Scientists usually describeevolution in terms of the humanbrain growing bigger andadding new regions,” said prin-cipal investigator DanielGeschwind, professor of humangenetics and neurology at theDavid Geffen School ofMedicine at UCLA.
“Our research suggests thatit’s not only size but the risingcomplexity within brain centresthat led humans to evolve intotheir own species,” he said.
Using post-mortem brain tis-sue, Geschwind and colleaguesapplied next-generationsequencing and other modernmethods to study gene activityin humans, chimps and rhesusmacaques, a common ancestorfor both chimps and humansthat allowed researchers to seewhere changes emerged. IANS
Brain wiringgave humansedge overchimps
BRAIN WIRINGWINE FOR HEALTH
GENETICS
Using post-mortembrain tissue, scientistsapplied next-generation sequencing and othermodern methods
Older fathers linked to child’s healthALLISON JACKSON
For years, older mothershave been blamed for thehealth problems of their
children.But a study published in
Nature today points the finger atolder fathers.
An Icelandic company hasfound that men who father chil-
dren later in life pass on morenew genetic mutations to theiroffspring than younger dads,possibly increasing their child’srisk of mental disorders suchautism and schizophrenia, theLos Angeles Times reported.
Researchers studied thegenomes of 78 families inIceland and found that the num-
ber of mutations in a child wasrelated to the age of the father,according to US News.
“Society has been veryfocused on the age of the mother.But apart from (Down’sSyndrome) it seems that disor-ders such as schizophrenia andautism are influenced by the ageof the father and not the moth-
er,” Dr Kari Stefansson, ofDecode Genetics, who led theresearch, was quoted by the BBCas saying.
According to Bloomberg, a20-year-old man hands about 25mutations to their offspring,while a 40-year-old man passeson about 65.
Mothers always transmit
about 15 new mutations no mat-ter their age, it said.
“The father is an incrediblyimportant contributor to muta-tions, and even if de novo (new)mutations happen randomly, themore mutations you have, themore likely you will have one ina gene that matters,” Stefanssonsaid. GLOBAL POST
ALEXANDER BESANT
In another score forwine afficionados, anew study now sug-gests that a compound
in red wine may preventseniors from taking falls.The chemical compoundresveratrol, an antioxidantfound in red wine andlinked to many health ben-efits including anti-aging,can now claim to helpimprove balance.
While this statementmay bring a cheer to many.There is just one catch tothis study. It is said that
in order to achieve thesame effect as the study,someone would have todrink 700 bottles of wine.
That said, the studybasically suggests that the compound could be con-centrated and made into a supplement form which inthe correct dosage can beused in the future.
“Our study suggests anatural compound likeresveratrol, which can beobtained either throughdietary supplementationor diet itself, could actual-ly decrease some of themotor deficiencies seen inour aging population,”said Jane Cavanaugh, anassistant professor of phar-macology at DuquesneUniversity, told the
Telegraph.“And that would,
therefore, increase anaging person’s quality of life anddecrease their risk of hospitalisation due to slipsand falls.”
The study was con-ducted on two groups ofmice, one younger, theother older.
Researchers had bothgroups walk a tight bal-ance beam. At first, the oldmice were seen strugglingto cross but after receivingmega doses of reveratrol,the older mice were just asnimble as their youngercounterparts, said UPI.
The researchers alsosaid that the antioxidantwould be likely blockingcompounds that producecell death.
“We believe thatresveratrol is either remov-ing the byproducts ofdopamine metabolism,which are harmful to neu-ral cells, or increasingresistance in the cellsthemselves,” Cavanaughtold Wine Spectator.
This discovery hasbeen presented at theAmerican ChemicalSociety national meetingthat was heldin Philadelphia.
GLOBAL POST
The chemical compound resveratrol, an antioxidant found in red wine, can now claim to help improve balance in old people.
when someone claims to havemade a full length spoof. AllariNaresh’s Sudigadu is not just a
full spoof film, it is ‘the mother ofall spoofs’ ever made in Telugu
cinema. It’s been years sincesomeone has attempted anything
like this and BheemineniSrinivasa Rao, the director of the
film, does a terrific job in fillingthe film with so many spoofs thatone will lose track of the numbersof references in the film. The bestpart about it is that nothing feels
awkward.Allari Naresh stars as Shiva,
the quintessential Telugu cinemahero, who’s both brave and lucky
right from his birth. When he‘suddenly’ grows old enough to
save Hyderabad from severalatrocities, he goes on an under-
cover mission to eliminate thegang of a don named ‘D’. In thisprocess, he meets Priya (MonalGajjar) and ends up going on along adventure in search of his
parents. How he manages to do itforms the rest of the story.
Sudigadu is a worthy remakeof C S Amudhan’s Tamil Padam
and kudos to BheemineniSrinivasa Rao for coming up withinnumerable whacky lines whichtake potshots at clichés in Telugucinema and even television. One
such instance is a scene where weare transported to the sets of a
popular TV show Challenge.Those five minutes are worth
whatever you are going to spendon the film. The film’s first half isa laugh riot and it sets the bar so
high that the second half fallsjust short of sending you on
a laughter-crazed trip as muchas the first half does.
Nevertheless, the film is a breezyentertainer and a complete paisa
vasool film.Allari Naresh does
a terrific job with his role whichgives him the license to go
berserk. The confidence withwhich he delivers even the mosthilarious lines with a poker faceis noteworthy and he carries the
entire film on his shoulders.Music by Sri Vasanth is alright
and Vijay Ulaganath’s cinematog-raphy is good. This is not the filmwhere you should raise questions
about the logic behind a scene.It’s a spoof. All you need to do issit back and tell yourself ‘OMG!That’s so true’. Two thumbs up
for the film.
Allari Naresh dazzles in this laugh riotwhich takes a dig at every clichéassociated with Telugu cinema.
MOVIESudigaadu
CASTAllari Naresh, Monal
Gajjar
DIRECTORBheemineni SrinivasaRaoRATING3.5
EntertainmentFRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
21COMEDY CENTRAL
Allu Arjungoes to Kerala
Allu Arjun flew to Ernakulamyesterday to interact with
his fans. This is his first visit toKerala after his recent filmJulayi was dubbed inMalayalam as Gaja Pokkiri. Theactor has a huge fan base inKerala and he has promised hisfans that he’ll act in a straightMalayalam film soon.
Rana is allpraises for Ajith
Ajith has a new fan in Rana, if the lat-ter’s tweets are anything to go by.
“Wrapped the sched of the #AjithKumar/Vishnuvardhan tamil film. An extreme
pleasure and honor working with#Ajithsir. Really had a great time (sic),”
he posted on Twitter after shooting forhis cameo in Mumbai. Rana is in
Hyderabad where he’s shooting forKrishnam Vande Jagadgurum.
CINE BYTES
YVM’s audiorelease on Sept 2
Nani, Samantha starrerYeto Vellipoyindhi
Manasu is in the last stage ofproduction. Gautham Menonhas revealed that the film’saudio is going to be launchedon September 2. Ilayaraja hascomposed the music.
fashionFRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
H&M CHOOSES ITS FACE FOR FALL 2012HIGH STREET retailer H&M has chosen Swedish-American actor Joel Kinnaman as the face of its Fall 2012 adcampaign, directed by Jonas Akerlund. The 30-year-old Easy Money will reportedly be shown wearing pieces
including a varsity jacket layered over a navy crewneck and denim shirt.
Five Beauty Trends
2. Bold eyes
It is not the time to beshy in fashion. Wear
royal bold colours onclothes and don’t stop justthere. Eye make-up iselaborate for the season.That doesn’t mean thetrend should only besaved for the expert handsof fashion shows. Wearingone bold colour eye shad-ow with a mascara andeyeliner will get the run-way look at home. If thatis too risky, you can chan-nel Stella McCartney showby applying a electric bluemascara on a clean face.
Adorn your hair with clips, jewels,barrettes and bands to define the
shape of the hair this season. Matchthe colour of metal to the outfits.Fashion aside, this trend convenientlykeeps your hair neat and in shape. Noflyaway, or incontrollable messiness forthe festive season.
22&23ASHLEY GREENE FOR DKNYTWILIGHT ACTRESS Ashley Greene is starring in a new DKNY Jeans campaign shot by German photographerand director Peter Lindbergh. Fans can turn to Pinterest to discover all the images from the Fall/Winter2012-2013 campaign, also featuring German model Johannes Huebl.
for Fall Winter 2012When designers display a collection on the runway, it is not just the garments that are to set the trends forthe forthcoming season. The styling is of equal importance. These are the hair and make-up trends thatmade a statement on the runway and can easily be tried at home.
5. Sparkle
Having too much sparkle on garmentsmight be passé lately, but that doesn’t
mean sparkle doesn’t appear in make-up thisseason. A clever dusty effect shimmer onthe eyelids or nail enamel in glitter were apopular trend at the couture shows in Paris.At Chanel couture show, the nails wereapplied with silver shade wit a half coveredtop layer of baby pink. Sparkle is treated in agentle feminine manner as opposed to theDisco era bold manner.
3. Red Lips
Aclassic make-up trend that keepsmaking its way in and out of fashion
is back again. Matte red lip colour canneatly be applied with a simple lip brushand tried by all skin tones and face shapes.Keep the rest of the make-up pretty basic tomaintain an understated look. At Gucci, thelips were in the deepest shade of red thatmade for a deep and mysterious yetsexy look.
4. PinkCheeks
That natural toneof flush pink cheeks
made a comebackon the runway.
Models showcased a naturallook on lips and hair and
matched that with a pair blushingcheeks. A very feminine nod tothe winter season, pink cheeks
can be worn for a day or a nightlook. Wear this make-up with a
simple wool print dress andboots during daytime orwith a floor length gown
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under the eye noron the cheeks.
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ACROSS1 Very thin soup6 Lambs’ ma’ams10 A human arm bone14 Bald eagle nest15 Army outpost16 Playwright Simon17 Food prep pun (Part 1)20 Linden and Roach21 Guard, tackle or center22 Squiggly letter23 Emptied, as a brake line24 Country just south of Sicily28 ‘The View’ co-host Shepherd30 Golden Triangle flowers32 Heavy drinker35 Animal with a white rump36 Food prep pun (Part 2)40 Bathroom, in Brighton41 Features of O. Henry stories42 All at once45 Flamethrower substance49 Hard to get a reaction out of50 Wearing apparel52 Edinburgh ‘Uh-uh’53 ‘Tahitian Women on the Beach’
artist56 Bible book after John57 Food prep pun (Part 3)61 Worshiped object62 Secluded valley63 Africa’s Sierra ___64 Love to excess (with ‘on’)65 Pairs with drums66 Go-___ (mini racers)
DOWN1 Uses the tub2 Go over and over and over3 ‘... if you want to avoid trouble’4 Involuntary twitches5 ‘I’m so clever’ sound6 Sam’s secretary in ‘The Maltese
Falcon’7 Cause for stitches8 Emerald Isle language9 Apple attachment10 Open, as a change purse11 ‘Anna Karenina’ author
Tolstoy12 Game with matchsticks13 Hearty mugful18 Three dots19 A bit moist23 Fancy cracker topper25 Bent the truth26 ‘Cast’ lead-in27 Seek a response from29 1 or 66 (Abbr.)30 Actor Sean31 Man of the cloth33 Parisian pop34 ‘7 Faces of Dr. ___’36 Didi of ‘Grease’ and ‘Grease 2’37 Where you hang your hat38 ‘Coming of Age in Samoa’
pattern44 Adult male deer46 Heavy thing on a ship47 Like some fingerprints48 Complicated situations50 Likelier to win
a baby contest51 Bank claims54 Attempt to persuade55 Splashy party56 Where sailors go57 ‘Way’ or ‘wife’ beginning58 ‘And now,
without further ___ ...’59 ‘Death Be ___ Proud’60 Of the same ___ (similar)
KAKURO QUICK CROSSWORD
SUDOKU
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26THOUGHT OF THE DAYThe brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get upin the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
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PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER
How to play kakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku insome ways. But is also suitably different. The keyquestion: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well hereare the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakurogrid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It hasrows and columns, and dark cells like in a cross-word. And, just like in a crossword, some of thedark cells will contain numbers. Some cells willcontain two numbers.
However, in a crossword the numbersreference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are allyou get! They denote the total of the digits in therow or column referenced by the number.
Within each collection of cells — calleda run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be usedbut, like sudoku, each number may only be usedonce.
Let’s have an example to explain this conceptmore clearly:
In the image above, which shows a section ofa kakuro puzzle, you will see the numbers ‘26’and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. Thismeans that the total of the three cells under-neath must sum to 14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could bethe answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...
So, how do you work out the actual combi-nation? Well, this is done through eliminationand cross-referencing. For instance, as you workout the answers for other kakuro clues, this willnaturally limit the valid combinations, and hencethe answer for this particular run.
Note the second cell in row two — it con-tains two numbers, 30 and 11. The 30 refers tothe vertical run underneath the number 30 andthe 11 refers to the two cells to the right, hori-zontally, of the number 11.
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ARIES: The Wheel ofFortune – You have the upper handin an argument. Don’t take it too far,though. Learn to let go of minor irri-tants and move on with your life.
GEMINI: Knight of Wands– Keep a check on your erratic beha -viour, which may be confusing peo-ple. By being unpredictable, you havebuilt quite a reputation for yourself.
LEO: The High Priestess –In a relationship, both husband andwife must come halfway. Otherwise,it is not going to work out. Do littlethings for each other.
LIBRA: Nine of Wands –You have gained new confidence bysome recent successes. This is spurr -ing you on in the right direction. Thisis a great time to start a new venture.
TAURUS: Knight of Pentac -les – Your arrogance is not doing youany good. You are feeling let down bysomeone close. But how can you bearrogant and expect them to help?
CANCER: The Tower – Youmay have overheard some spicy gos-sip at the office. The choice is yours,whether to pass on that informationto others or not.
VIRGO: Judgment – Youare a believer and this has broughtyou a long way. You must not let goof the faith, and continue to believein yourself.
SCORPIO: Queen ofSwords – You are a hard worker andare about to be appreciated for allyour efforts. You will be given abonus or some kind of appreciation.
CAPRICORN: Queen ofWands – You are in the mood to cooksomething nice for your family andyourself. Get into the habit of healthycooking and you will see the results.
SAGITTARIUS: Ten ofWands – You are extremely tired withyour work and want to take a break.You are seeing the world in new lightby doing things differently.
AQUARIUS: Four of Cups –There are many layers to changes thathave happened in the recent past. Wh -i le this is not the best time for change,you haven’t had a choice in the matter.
PISCES: Two of Swords –Someone is upsetting you by givingyou a hard time at work. It’s nothingyou cannot handle. You just becomevery agitated when he/she is around.
TAURUSHealth will be fine. Confusionand tension will be over andclearcut a decision will betaken. Unwanted argumentsmay be curtailed so that cou-ples live cordially. You will clearall hand loans taken as finan-cial position will be strong.
GEMINIAll tensions will be over. Finan -cially a satisfactory position isseen. Your charisma will im -prove, which will do the magic;wherever you go, you will berespected. New VIPs will getintroduced to you, which willprove beneficial in the future.
CANCERYou will plan a better futureand the base work will be doneat present. Friends and wellwis -hers will help you. Govt sopslikely. Court verdicts will go inyour favour. Those planning togo abroad will get their visa intime. Blood relatives will help.
LEOYou will work with foresight.Unexpected financial fortunelikely. Some are likely to getgovt posts. Politicians will be inlimelight. Avoid being too closeto friends who had joined yourlist recently. Marriage talks willend favourably.
VIRGOHealth needs to be given prop-er attention. Negligence mightput you in major trouble. Avoidtalking emotionally, whichmight go against you withchances of you getting blamedtoo. Financial position willimprove considerably.
LIBRAThough faced with lot of diffi-culties, you don't give up. Youwill struggle hard and registersuccess at any cost. Thoughfaced with work burden, empl -o y ees manage and dischargeduties successfully. Expectedpromotion will be yours soon.
SCORPIOYou will get negative thoughtssometime; also your work willnot be successful in the firstattempt. Do not worry as this isonly a temporary problem.Things will soon change. Oppo -sition will reduce. You get a lotof suitable opportunities.
SAGITTARIUSYou will feel cheerful as lazi-ness and tiredness will go.Financial situation too will becomfortable, which will keepyou happy. Spouse might bedissatisfied with some of youractions. Spend some time withher to keep her happy.
CAPRICORNYou will be successful in alltasks undertaken. VIP friendswill extend help and supportto ensure your success. Somehave bright chances to buy ahouse or land. Misunderstand -ing with father will be over butnot with other relatives.
AQUARIUSNew and innovative thoughtswill come to mind, take shapeand get implemented, whichwill ensure desired results.Expected money will come asper target. Adamant attitude ofchildren will change. Increasedtravel and minor accident likely.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS: Seven-timeTour de France winner LanceArmstrong said Thursday hehas decided not to continue hisfight against the US Anti-Doping Agency’s claims thathe used performance-enhan-cing drugs.
Armstrong, while maintain-ing his innocence, made hisdecision after a US federal courtdismissed his lawsuit againstUSADA, paving the way for theagency to continue its probe intothe retired American cyclist.
Armstrong accused USADAof launching a “witch hunt”against him and said they wereplaying with a loaded deck.
“Today I turn the page,”Armstrong said in astatement on his
Twitter website Thursdayevening.
“I will no longer address theissue, regardless of the circum-stances. I will commit myself tothe work I began before everwinning a single Tour de Francetitle.”
The 40-year-old said he wasgrowing weary of the fight andthe strain it had put on his per-sonal and professional life.
“There comes a point inevery man’s life when he has tosay ‘enough is enough.’ For me,that time is now,” Armstrongsaid.
“The toll this has taken onmy family and my work for our
foundation and on meleads me to where
I am today —
finished with this nonsense.”Armstrong’s decision to stop
fighting USADA means hecould be stripped of his sevenTour de France titles he wonfrom 1999-2005. His decisioncould also lead to a lifetime banfrom cycling.
USADA says Armstrongused banned substances, includ-ing the blood-booster EPO andsteroids, as well as blood trans-
fusions dating back to 1986.Armstrong, who retired
from cycling last year, sued infederal court to try and haltUSADA’s probe but lost.
“The bottom line is I playedby the rules that were put inplace by the UCI, WADA andUSADA when I raced,”Armstrong wrote.
“The idea that athletes canbe convicted today without pos-itive A and B samples, under thesame rules and procedures thatapply to athletes with positivetests, perverts the system andcreates a process where anybegrudged ex-teammate canopen a USADA case out of spiteor for personal gain or a cheat-ing cyclist can cut a sweetheartdeal for themselves.
Lance gives up fightLance Armstrong will be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles andbanned from cycling for life, the US Anti-Doping Agency said.
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF LANCE ARMSTRONG
There comes a point inevery man’s life
when he has to say,‘Enough is enough.’ For
me, that time is now. Ihave been dealing with
claims that I cheated andhad an unfair advantage
in winning my sevenTours since 1999.
Over the past threeyears I have been subject-
ed to a two-year federalcriminal investigation fol-
lowed by Travis Tygart’sunconstitutional witchhunt. The toll this has
taken on my family andmy work for our founda-tion and on me leads meto where I am today fin-
ished with this nonsense.I refuse to participate
in a process that is so one-sided and unfair.
Regardless of what TravisTygart says, there is zero
physical evidence to sup-port his outlandish and
heinous claims. The bot-tom line is I played by the
rules that were put inplace by the UCI, WADA
and USADA when Iraced. The idea that
athletes can be con-victed today without
positive A and B sam-ples, under the samerules and proceduresthat apply to athletes
with positive tests,perverts the system
and creates a processwhere any begrudged
ex-teammate canopen a USADA case
out of spite or for per-sonal gain or a cheat-
ing cyclist can cut asweetheart deal for
themselves. Going forward, I
am going to devotemyself to raising mykids, fighting cancer,
and attempting to be thefittest 40-year-old on the
planet.
‘Therecomes a
time whenenough is
enough’Armstrong’s statement on
abandoning hisbattle against the
US Anti-DopingAgency.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO:American cyclist Lance Armstrong willbe stripped of his seven Tour de Francetitles and banned from cycling for life,US Anti-Doping Agency chief TravisTygart said Thursday.
The decision came after Armstrongannounced he was dropping his fightagainst USADA’s charges that he usedperformance-enhancing drugs to win themost prestigious event in the sport from1999 to 2005. Tygart told AFP thatArmstrong would be stripped of all hisresults dating back to August 1, 1998.
He called the move a “sad day” for thesporting world but expressed hope that itwould help create a “level playing field”for future athletes.
“It is a sad day for all of us who lovesport and our athletic heroes,” Tygart saidin a separate written statement.
“This is a heartbreaking example ofhow the win-at-all-costs culture of sport,if left unchecked, will overtake fair, safeand honest competition, but for cleanathletes, it is a reassuring reminder thatthere is hope for future generations tocompete on a level playing field withoutthe use of performance-enhancingdrugs.” Tygart said USADA planned tohold a news conference on Friday to pro-
vide more details on the case.
A ‘sadday’ for
sports
This is a heartbreakingexample of how the
win-at-all-costs culture ofsport, if left unchecked, willovertake fair, safe andhonest competition.
Travis TygartUS ADA chief
Armstrong, whoretired from cyclinglast year, sued in federal court to tryand halt USADA’sprobe but lost.
PARALYMPICS 2012
THE BARCLAYS
sports 29FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
JULIE CHARPENTRATAgencie France-presse
PARIS: Athletes with intellec-tual disabilities are competingat the Paralympics for the firsttime in 12 years, after anembarrassing scandal involv-ing Spain’s basketball team.
Three sports at the Gamesin the British capital are open tointellectual disability (ID) ath-letes — athletics, swimmingand table tennis — followingthe introduction of stricter cri-teria for participation.
The categories weredropped for the last two Gamesin Athens and Beijing after 10members of the gold-winningSpanish basketball team inSydney in 2000 were told tohand back their medals becauseseveral players had no intellec-tual disability.
A journalist who played forthe side claimed afterwardsthat “at least 15 of the 200-strong Spanish [Paralympics]team had no physical or mentalhandicap” and that many par-ticipating countries had alsoselected non-disabled athletes.
The president of theInternational ParalympicCommittee, Philip Green, saidhe was satisfied with new eligi-
bility criteria drawn up by theInternational Sports Federationfor Persons with IntellectualDisability (INAS-FID) to pre-vent a repeat.
“It’s already been used in anumber of competitions and Ihave confidence in that sys-tem,” he told AFP in a recentinterview.
The re-introduction is aboost for ID athletes and thefederations that representthem, who have struggled togain as much recognition —and funding — as other para-sports.
Of the 4,200 athletes expect-ed at the Games, there will besome 200 ID athletes.
Despite the return of thecategories, the director-generalof the French Paralympic andSporting Committee (CPSF)Gilles Johannet is disappointedthat there are only 200 placesfor ID athletes.
“It’s not really serious tojust have six competitors persport,” he added.
Yohan Blakeis second-fastest manUsain Bolt, fresh fromhis triple gold haul atthe Olympics, took the200m in 19.58sec.
LAUSANNE: Usain Bolt easedto victory in the 200m at theLausanne Diamond Leaguemeeting on Thursday asJamaican teammate Yohan Blakebecame the second fastest 100mperformer of all time.
Bolt, fresh from his secondsuccessive triple gold haul at theOlympics, took victory in19.58sec, ahead of Dutch runnerChurandy Martina and compa-triot Nickel Ashmeade.
“I am definitely very pleased.It was a good run for the end ofthe season. I just wanted to havefun,” said Bolt.
Earlier, Blake became the sec-ond fastest man over 100m whenhe clocked 9.69sec.
World champion Blake, whowas silver medallist behind Boltat the London Olympics, fin-ished ahead of America’s TysonGay in 9.83sec with Nesta Carterof Jamaica in 9.95sec.
Blake, 22, improved his pre-vious personal best of 9.75sec tomove into second place on theall-time performers list which henow shares with Gay who hasalso run 9.69sec.
Only Bolt — with 9.58sec and9.63sec — has run faster.
Bolt said he always knewBlake would dominateThursday’s 100m.
“I saw him in training and Icould tell he was going to runfast,” said Bolt
America’s Carmelita Jeteredged the women’s 100m,thrillingly turning the tables onOlympic champion Shelly-AnnFraser-Pryce of Jamaica.
Fraser-Pryce had defeatedJeter in the final at the Gamesearlier this month, but she tookvictory on Thursday, dippingjust at the right time at the linewith both runners clocking10.86sec.
America’s Jason Richardsonwon the 110m hurdles in13.08sec. Qatar’s Moutaz EssaBarshim Ahmed, a bronzemedallist at the Olympics, wonthe high jump, getting the betterof Ivan Ukhov.
‘ID’ makes comebackat Paralympic GamesIntellectual Disability category was dropped after members of theSpanish basketball team were told to hand back their gold medals.
Harringtonseizesleadat TheBarclays
American Tiger Woods is part ofa group tied for 14th.
FARMINGDALE, NEWYORK: Irishman PadraigHarrington (right) seizedthe first-round lead with aseven-under 64 onThursday at The Barclays,the first tournament of thePGA Tour playoffs.
Harrington has a one-stroke lead over NickWatney and BrianHarman, who both firedsix-under 65s on theBethpage course.
Harrington is hoping astrong showing at theevent will convinceEuropean Ryder Cup cap-
tain Jose Maria Olazabalto make him one of histwo captain’s picks.
American TigerWoods is part of a grouptied for 14th after cardinga three-under 68.Defending championDustin Johnson is onestroke ahead of FedExCup points leader Woodsin eighth.
While The Barclays isthe first of four PGA Tourplayoff events, a moreimmediate concern forHarrington is the RyderCup.
ATHLETICS
Blake improved hisprevious personalbest of 9.75sec tomove into secondplace on the all-timeperformers’ list.
sports 30WINSTON-SALEM OPEN
NEW HAVEN OPEN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
NEW YORK: The Williams sis-ters could meet in the semi-finalsas a result of the US Open drawsmade on Thursday. Seven-timeGrand Slam winner VenusWilliams lurked as a dangerousunseeded floater and ended upin the same quarter of the drawas Polish second seed AgnieszkaRadwanska.
Venus also was slotted intothe same half of the draw as hersister Serena, meaning theycould only meet in a semi-finalwith third seed Maria Sharapovaand Belarus top seed VictoriaAzarenka in the opposite half.
DJOKOVIC TO AVOID ANDY,FEDERER UNTIL FINALOn the men’s side, whereSpanish star Rafael Nadal isabsent because of continuingknee trouble, the draw set up apossible rematch of the Wimb le -don and Olympic finals in the se -mi-finals with Murray and Fed -erer in the same half of the draw.
World No 1 Federer, whowon his 17th Grand Slam title bybeating Murray in last month’sWimbledon final, won five USOpen titles in a row from 2004through 2008.
Second seed Djokovic couldface Argentina’s seventh-seededJuan Martin Del Potro in thequarter-finals and Serb eighthseed Janko Tipsarevic or Spanishfourth seed David Ferrer in thesemi-finals. AFP
Venus-SerenaUS Opensemis ispossible
WINSTON-SALEM: Czechsecond seed Tomas Berdych andUS seventh seed Sam Querreyadvanced to a semi-finalmatchup at the ATP Winston-Salem Open with three-set vic-tories on Thursday.
Former Wimbledon runner-up Berdych ousted BelgianSteve Darcis 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 whileQuerrey outlasted Ukraine four -th seed Alexandr Dolgopolov 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7/3), firing 20 aces inthe match to win after twohours and 11 minutes.
Berdych had to come frombehind to beat Darcis on the har -dcourts at Wake Forest Univ er -sity. Querrey, who won a titlelast month in Los Angeles, haswon 13 of his last 16 matchesand leads the US Open Seriesstandings.
Berdych is the sixth seed atthe US Open and will begin playnext week in the year’s finalGrand Slam tournament againstBelgian David Goffin.
Querrey, seeded 27th atFlushing Meadows, will openagainst Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsunnext week and could seeBerdych in the third round.
Dolgopolov, the US Open’s14th seed, will open againstAmerican Jesse Levine andcould face defending US Openchampion Novak Djokovic inthe round of 16.
In the other side of the draw,French top seed Jo-WilfriedTsonga cruised past sixth seed-
ed Marcel Granollers of Spain 6-1, 6-2. Tsonga hammered fiveaces and won 77 percent of hisfirst-serve points in a 53-minutematch.
“I’m very happy because Iplayed a bit less than the two(previous) matches and alsobecause I played very good ten-
nis. For me, it’s good. It’s goodfor the rest of the tournament,”said Tsonga.
Tsonga’s victory booked hima berth in the semis againstthird-seeded John Isner whodefeated Goffin 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 onThursday.
Tsonga won the first fivegames of the match and brokeGranollers two more times inthe second set, going four forfive on break point chances.This will be his first semi-finalsince Wimbledon where he lostto Andy Murray.
Defending champion Isneroverpowered Goffin with 21aces, winning 33 of 38 points onhis first serve.
Berdych, Tsonga movecomfortably into semisBerdych had it easy against Darcis (who ousted Roddick) after losing the first set.
NEW HAVEN: Four-timedefending champion CarolineWozniacki advanced to thesemi-finals of the WTA NewHaven Open on Thursday but aslight right knee injury put adamper on the celebration.
“I decided straight awayafter I felt it,” she said. “I playedone more point and decided Ineeded to see the trainerbecause I felt a sharp pain inthere. I needed to treat it.”
Wozniacki felt a twinge inher right knee during the first
game of the second set andcalled for a trainer.
After a Cibulkova doublefault on the next point,Wozniacki walked to the chairumpire and pointed to her knee.She sat down and got a bag of
ice from a cooler. She continuedwith the knee wrapped andwon with ease but planned tohave the knee examined beforedeciding if she would play onFriday.
Wozniacki is scheduled toface Russian seventh seed MariaKirilenko, who beat OlgaGovortsova of Belarus 6-1, 6-2 inanother quarter-final Thursday.
Wozniacki is looking tobecome just the fourth womanto win the same WTA event infive consecutive years. AFP
Wozniacki suffers injury in win The Danish third seed, who is set to be the eighth seed in next week’sUS Open, defeated Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-1 in the quarterfinals.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France serves to Marcel Granollers of Spain duringthe quarterfinals at Wake Forest University on Thursday in Winston-Salem,North Carolina. AFP/ GETTY IMAGES/ STREETER LECKA
Maria Kirilenko (RUS x7) bt OlgaGovortsova (BLR) 6-1, 6-2
US OPEN PREVIEW
Wozniacki receives treatment fromWTA trainer Kerri Whitehead duringher match on Thursday. AFP PHOTO
sports 31NEW ZEALAND IN INDIA: FIRST TEST
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
India vs New ZealandIndia 371/5 (109 overs)India 1st inningsPujara not out 151Tendulkar b Boult 19V Kohli c Guptill b Martin 58SK Raina c †van Wyk b Patel 3MS Dhoni*† not out 61Extras 10Total 371/5Fall of wickets: 1-49, 2-77, 3-125, 4-250, 5-260 Bowling O M R WCS Martin 23 3 66 1TA Boult 21 3 77 2DAJ Bracewell 15.4 1 81 1JEC Franklin 13.2 0 40 0
JS Patel 28 7 67 1
KS Williamson 7 0 31 0
SBH wins A division threeday league against BDLBDL 260 & 224 (Ashwin 93, DanielManohar 3 for 51, Vishal Sharma 3for 73, T Pavan 3 for 6) lost to SBH216 & 270 for 5 (Rohit Rayudu 30,Daniel Manohar 87no, Kushal Zilla86, Vishal Sharma 36no)
Ensconse 334 & 73 (Amol Shinde 5 for 52, Kiran Kumar 3 for 0) lostto Andhra Bank 468 for 8 (ArjunYadav 170, Amol Shinde 48, KiranKumar 45, Abdul Khader 30no,Mehdi Hasan 5 for 182, Maazuddin3 for 82)
Emcc 187 & 36 for 1 vs Falkhnuma188 (Vinay Goud 78, KChandrakanth 6 for 44)
Hyd Bottling 233 & 46 for 2 vsSCRSA 192 (Solomon Raj 61,Rakesh 34, Razi 3 for 45, SujeetPartabani 4 for 59)
A 2 & 3 divisions two daysleague championship
MCC 237 bt Mega City 202 (Shravan34, Enosh K 35, Prince Ojha 5 or 36,Yash Puri 3 for 50)
LEAGUE CRICKET
With the kind approach that suits the longer version of the gameperfectly, Pujara and Dhoni place hosts in the driver’s seat.
HYDERABAD: India wascomfortably placed at 371/5,adding 64 runs to theirovernight total of 307/5, at theend of the morning session’splay today, the second day ofthe first Test match againstNew Zealand.
Though slow, runs flowedin at regular intervals, whichincluded a few boundaries.The outfield continued to be onthe slower side making it a lit-tle difficult for the batsmen tosee the ball unable to escapethe hands of the fielders.
Thursday’s centurion, Puja -ra added 32 runs to take hisscore to an unconquered 151.The 24-year-old batsman brou -g ht his 150th run in style whenhe chipped a ball from DoughBracewell to the boundary. Theyoungster showed immensematurity with his batting, play-ing sensibly all through. He isbeing well supported byCaptain Cool, Mahender SinghDhoni, who was unbeaten on58. The skipper seemed in nohurry, taking his time to playthe strokes, which at timesincluded his, now famous,‘helicopter shot’. Dhoni waslucky to have escaped beingcaught when he edged oneshot to the slips when on 35.
The two Indian batsmen
seemed to frustrate the NewZealand bowlers as the Kiwisfailed to take any wicket in themorning session. Though TrentBoult did go for a few extraruns, the other bowlers bowleda decent line. They wouldhope to see a different resultwhen they come back on thefield in the post-lunch session.
Earlier, rain delayed thestart of play. Though not tor-rential, everyone — from thegrounds staff to the media;from the spectators to the play-ers — looked up to the skieshoping that there would be noreason for the duration of thematch to be reduced in anymanner. The match that wasscheduled to have started athalf past nine could not beginuntil ten to ten. The covers onthe field saw upset facesamong the spectators.
The crowds waited withbatted breath hoping to see theplayers take their positions onthe field while it was a nearsame reaction in both the dress-ing rooms. The players movedaround wondering if the raingods would play spoil sportand would there be a chance ofsome undesired result.
Fortunately for all, it wasnot a long wait. The coverswere slowly taken off and thiswas greeted by loud cheersfrom the crowd. With the matchhaving seen the first session gothrough with no other interrup-tion, everyone would hope forthe same throughout the day.
Pujara raises his bat after reaching 150 runs, while Dhoni congratulateshim; (below) New Zealand’s TA Boult walks up to his position near theboundary at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Uppal.
SPANISH SUPER CUP EUROPA LEAGUEsportsFRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
32CHINA'S LIN EYES OLYMPIC HAT-TRICK Chinese badminton star Lin Dan has denied any plans to quit the game —and even said he would consider going for a third straight Olympic title in2016. ‘Super Dan’, 28, was thought to be eyeing retirement after hebecame the first man to clinch back-to-back Olympic gold medals.
DERMOT LEDWITH Agencie France-Presse
MADRID: An embarrassi -ng blunder by Barcelonago alkeeper Victor Valdesha nded Real Madrid a Spa -nish Super Cup lifeline Th -u rsday despite slumping toa 3-2 first leg defeat at theirCatalan rivals' Camp Nouhome. With Barca 3-1 ah -ead, and pressing for a fo -urth goal, Valdes was cau -ght out inside his own pen -alty area as he tried to drib-ble the ball clear only to bedispossessed by a stunnedAngel Di Maria who scoredinto an empty goal.
Pedro Rodriguez,Lionel Messi and XaviHernandez had earlierscored second-half goals to
give Barca a convincinglead after CristianoRonaldo had put Madridahead on 55 minutes.
Madrid coach JoseMourinho questioned thelegality of Barca's first goal.
"Barca played well, esp -ecially in the first-half wh -en they did not allow us toplay, but in the second wewere able to change our ga -me a little. It was a good ga -me but their first goal wasan error by the linesmanand was offside," he said.
Barcelona coach Tito Vi -l anova, in charge of his first'Clasico', was happy wi thhis side's performance.
"We controlled the ga -me and we had the chanceto go 4-1 ahead at the end,but that's football.“
Valdes howlercan’t stop BarçaBarcelona coach Tito Vilanova, incharge of his first 'Clasico', washappy with his side's performanceafter they beat Real Madrid 3-2.
‘Own goal’spares Liverpool
the blushes
ALISTAIR WATSONAgencie France-Presse
EDINBURGH: A makeshift Li -ver pool side needed a late owngoal to secure a narrow 1-0 winover Scottish Premier League
Hearts in their Europa Leagueplay-off round first leg match atTynecastle on Thursday.
Liverpool rested several firstteam stars for the match with theweekend's clash against Englishchampions Manchester City.
