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Winds of change Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harischandra, which released on May 3, 1913, sowed the seeds for what would become one of the largest and most prolific film industries in the world. On the 100th anniversary of Indian cinema, we go back in time to trace the major turning points that triggered a huge change in the respective film industries.

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HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

ARE WE BEING

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ARM-TWISTED ON AADHAAR? Fuelled by rumours that Aadhaar is going to be a lifeline for the common man, people are queuing up for the card. However, many from the political spectrum to civil society and legal circles question the rationale of compelling people on a ‘non-essential’ service. It smacks of political vested interests or even a scandal, they say.

A rare portrait of a legend Indian cinema owes a lot to PK Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India.

The monumental task Nair undertook is in itself awe-inspiring, and that’s precisely what inspired him.

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Colours to flatter you Bright colours have always been considered feminine, but not anymore. Men are defying the cliché and getting more daring and adventurous. Here’s a guide for men to sport colours with elan.

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GHMC proves El Dorado for those on deputation Officials deputed to serve GHMC for five years resort to many measures to remain here. It stunts the career growth of those recruited directly for the municipal services.

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Chelsea beat Basel to reach tourney final Chelsea reached the Europa League final for the first time in their history after surviving a first-half scare.

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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

city events

ARMY TALK

A talk by Captain Alok Bansal on Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir: The Future Trajectory at Badruka PG Centre (College), Kachiguda on May 8 from 6 pm.

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES Where: Colorama Printers, Secunderabad When: Till May 6, 10 am to 1 pm Contact: 80086-24949

WORKSHOPS Game of bottles Bartending workshop will be conducted.

Where: Liquid Art Bartending School, Begumpet When: May 4, 4 pm to 8 pm Contact: Ashish at 96402-72040

All About Cycling A half-day interactive workshop on cycling.

Where: Alliance Francaise, Banjara Hills When: May 4, 2 pm to 6 pm Contact: 96034-73470

DINING

Dish out A workshop on cake baking and chocolate making.

Where: Colorama Printers, Secunderabad When: Till May 8, 10 am to 1 pm

Budding geniuses A creative writing workshop for kids above the age of 7.

Where: Saptaparni (After School Activities) (2.6 km), Banjara Hills When: Ongoing, May 4, 10.30 am to 12.30 pm The art of writing Calligraphy workshop is on.

Where: Saptaparni (After School Activities), Banjara Hills When: Till May 3, 9 am to 11 am Contact: 90320-10200 The joy of reading Oxford Bookstore in association with GHAC and LICH is organising an informative, exciting and fun-filled workshop in social sciences and Humanities for kids.

Where: Oxford Bookstore, The Park When: Ongoing, Till May 12, 9:30 am to 2:00 pm Contact: 92461-12461 Fountain of youth Workshop on make-up tips is on.

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Foodies' haven Awadhi food festival is on.

Where: Bidri, Hyderabad Marriott Hotel, Tank Bund When: Till May 7, 6.30 pm to 11.30 pm

Indoor games Scrabble workshop for kids is being held.

Where: Saptaparni (After School Activities), Banjara Hills When: Till May 3, 9 am to 11 am

Mega mugs Thank God It’s Friday (TGIF) announced TGIF’s mega mugs offer to coincide with the start of the IPL. Where: TGIF, Banjara Hills When: Ongoing

Junior masterchef A summer camp Junior Gourmet is being organised.

Where: The Park Hyderabad, Somajiguda When: Till May 3, 10 am Contact: 86860-47000

FEST Music fest Banyan Tree's World Music Festival will be held. The day will feature musicians Farah Siraj, Prasanna, Andres Rotmistrovsky, Jake Hertzog others.

Where: Taramati Baradari, Gandipet When: May 3, 7 pm Contact: 93231-19381

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YESTERDAY’S QUESTION

WILL SARABJIT’S DEATH TRIGGER A NEW BOUT OF CONFLICT? YES (A) NO (B)

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EDUCATION

Fat penalty for late EAMCET applicants

Heavy late fee sum proves a burden for lower middle class students.

Student leaders plead for reduction in amount.

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he most awaited Engineering Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) is just round the corner and so far nearly four lakh students have applied for the test.

Though the submission of application without late fee is long gone by, students who want to apply at the last minute are still given a chance till May 7, with a maximum late fee of `10,000.

Though a huge amount, the late fee has the sanction of the AP High Court. Students who submit the fee late will have to pay the fine depending on the time allotted for the submission of the fee.

The late application penalty starts with `500 and goes up to

Fine stats n 3, 84502 students applied

for the test without paying any fine

n 6,650 students applied by paying a fine of `500 n 1,586 students applied by paying a fine of `1,000 n 333 students applied by paying a fine of `5,000 n So far, 53 students applied by paying `10,000 and officials say the number will increase till May 7

`10,000. This does not, however, seem to deter students from applying for the test. Students who still want to apply for the entrance test after April 27 have to submit the form by paying `10,000. So far, 53 applicants have paid up `10,000 and officials at the JNTU say that the number of late applicants will go up substantially.

What many last minute applicants don’t know is that the late applicants are subjected to a police verification to make sure that the intentions of the applicants are not mala fide.

“From the time of notification, there is ample time for students to apply for the entrance exam without having to pay a late fee. Even after that, students can apply by paying a late fee depending on the grace time

allotted. There are thousands of students who, due to unavoidable reasons, apply by paying a fine of `500- `1,000. However, when students pay huge amounts like `5,000 to `10,000, doubts arise. If an applicant can pay `10,000 for an entrance exam, it is more likely that their AROUND THE

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intentions are unclear. We are not saying that this is the case for all; there have been situations when students, under unavoidable circumstances, fearing having to lose a year, have applied by paying such huge amounts. But just to ensure that there is no malprac-

tice and the exam goes on smoothly, we give the details of the candidates who apply in the last minute to the police. There is a verification process done as a compulsory formality,” says MV Ramana Rao, convener, Eamcet-2013, and registrar of JNTU. But those students who are not rich find the amount of late fee a burden.

“I did not want to write the EAMCET exam this year because of the sudden death of my dad. But my mother and others wanted me to apply, so I had no choice but to pay a late fee of `10,000. It was difficult for me to pay such a big amount but my mother did not want me to lose out on a year,” says Uma (name changed) who will be appearing for the medical entrance exam this year.

Student leaders feel that the government should consider and make the penalty amount less. “Nearly 90 per cent of students who pay huge amounts to apply for the entrance test will obviously not be from middle class (families) and can afford to pay the amount. However, for students from middle class families, who have to apply in the last minute due to unavoidable reasons, it is a very big amount.

Though it is an order by the court, the government should consider and reduce the penalty,” says T Surender, JNTU JAC leader.

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Man who killed for cigarette gets life sentence NEW DELHI: A youth, who had murdered a man for failing to give him a cigarette, has been sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by a Delhi court which said he has no value of a human being.

Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau awarded the jail term to 25-year-old Rakesh for stabbing victim Suraj with a knife leading to his death, saying he did not hesitate to take law in his hands and evidence showed that he had the habit of snatching money from poor persons.

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According to the prosecution, the incident took place on the evening of November 27, 2010 in Sultanpuri area when Rakesh had demanded a cigarette from Suraj.

The police said Suraj had gone to the market with his uncle and cousin and on their way back to home, they started smoking 'beedi'. In the meantime, accused Rakesh who was known to them asked the victim to give him a cigarette.

The victim told him that he did not have a cigarette following which Rakesh threatened to kill him if he failed to provide him with the same.

Due to Suraj's inability to give cigarette, Rakesh took out a knife and stabbed him on his chest, it said.

Suraj's relatives, who were standing at a distance, took the injured to a hospital where he was declared brought dead by the doctors, the police said.

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CITY BRIEFS Man ‘coaxes’ woman to marry him

Women loot 70-year-old in share auto

10 MMTS trains cancelled from May 4-6

Ban on hoardings on Outer Ring Road

Power situation may improve in State

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he Chilkalguda police has registered a case against a man named Ramu for coaxing a woman to divorce her husband and marry him. Lalitha, a resident of Mettuguda, married Srikanth, a native of Gulbarga seven years ago.

She had recently come to her parents’ home, where Ramu demanded she divorce her husband.

ven a 70-year-old woman is not treated with consideration.

Susheela, 70, of Ziaguda in Secunderabad, was shocked when her women co-passengers in a share-auto snatched her mangalsutra weighing 4.5 tolas on Wednesday. She has complained to Kulsumpura police. Police are now searching for the auto-rikshaw.

total of 10 MMTS trains and passenger rail services are expected to be put out of work from May 4 to 6, following line maintenance works at Kachiguda railway station. A notice by the South Central Railways listed the train numbers between Secundera-badFalaknuma and FalaknumaLingampalli that will be cancelled.

he HMDA has issued orders for a ban on hoardings and billboards on Outer Ring Road in order to help curb the number of motor vehicle accidents. No hoardings, billboards, unipoles, telecommunication towers, transformers, machinery or dish antenna are permitted within a 15 meter buffer zone from the edge of the service road.

ower situation in AP may improve from October. Efforts are being made to maintain regular supply till then, officials said.

Andhra Pradesh Transmission Corp chairman and MD Hiralal Samariya said that the corporation had succeeded in ensuring that the Rabi crop season which has come to an end did not suffer any crop damage.

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News FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013 LAST YEAR... HERE No safety for women

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ast year we had reported that Hussain Sagar’s picturesque banks, which are the City’s favourite unwinding spot, are not so safe for women. Even though the lake attracts morning and evening walkers, families and youth, men and women, women's safety continues to be questioned here as there have been a number of cases of molestation, eve teasing and harassment reported in the area.

NUMEROLOGY

`10,000 is the maximum fine late applicants for EAMCET need to pay to the JNTU. So far, 53 students have paid the fine.

UID’s concept note states that enrolment will not be mandatory but benefits will be mandated. This is government’s way of making the usage of the Aadhaar compulsory.

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THINGS WE LEARNT TODAY

The column that teaches everyone something new about the way the world functions.

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TDP bites back the panther.

Revolt of three TRS leaders and their plans to join the TDP is seen as a revengeful act of the Desham for its loss of six MLAs to the TRS.

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Fat penalty for late EAMCET applicants.

Heavy late fee sum proves a burden for lower middle class students. Student leaders plead for reduction in amount.

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To Mars, from Earth.

Nasa is inviting public to submit their names, short poems and personal messages on-line for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian atmosphere.

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Are videogames too violent?

Studies suggest negative effects of playing video games can accumulate over time..

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Rio lagoon to be stench free.

A 40m reals engineering project has been proposed to make the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon stench free.

CIVIC

GHMC proves El Dorado Officials deputed to serve GHMC for five years take steps to remain here. It stunts the career growth of those recruited directly for the municipal services.

MD NIZAMUDDIN nizamuddin.a@postnoon.com

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bout half the employees of the GHMC are on deputation from various government departments who are liable to return after five years. But nobody wants to leave and to avert compulsory return they manage to get transferred from one circle to another.

“This is called short-standing,” says a senior official, who keeps a tab on the issue.

Despite coaxing and legal compulsions to get back to their original departments, most of them manage to stay using political clout and unions. The commissioner keeps issuing letters but it makes no difference.

Public Health, Country & Town Planning, Panchayath Raj

and CDMA (Commissioner and Director Municipal Administration) are some of the departments under MA&UD (Municipal Administration and Urban Development) where personnel on deputation are higher.

Those who were directly appointed to the GHMC lament the presence of these officials who continue even after the peri-

od of five years. “Even though they should not be considered for promotion according to rules, it happens. In fact, most top jobs are held by those on deputation,” says a senior municipal official.

An official, who has been waiting for a gazetted rank, recalls how once Vittalaiah, deputed from MA&UD as an

DEATH OF A LEGEND

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Jackson family tried drug interventions King of Pop’s mother Katherine Jackson said she tried to convince her son to do something about his drug addiction.

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson's family tried several times to carry out "interventions" on the singer to help him fight drug addiction, but he denied having a problem, a trial heard yesterday.

The late King of Pop's mother Katherine Jackson told police a few months after his June 2009 death about the attempts to convince her son to do something about his drug abuse, a detective said.

The 50-year-old singer died from an overdose of the powerful sedative and anesthetic propofol, administered

by Murray to help the Thriller legend deal with chronic insomnia.

Detective Orlando Martinez, citing an interview with the Jackson family matriarch in September 2009, told the court: "Mrs Jackson said the family tried to help him but he would have nothing to do with it."

"She had asked Michael if he was taking any drugs, and he denied it," he said on the fourth day of a wrongful death trial in Los Angeles pitting

attender a few decades ago retired as deputy commissioner.

On the contrary, one Laxmanji was appointed as LDC and he retired as LDC. Laxmanji’s case came to the notice of then commissioner of MCH Jannat Hussain, who did a complete overhaul of the process.

It is believed that most of the additional commissioners with the GHMC have completed their five-year period. Additional commissioners P Anuradha and K Siva Parvathi are the names referred as examples.

“No official is ready to speak on the issue. This is hampering promotions for genuine employees,” says Singireddy Srinivas Reddy, TDP-floor leader.

900 nabbed over rat, fox meat scandals BEIJING: China has detained 900 people for meat-related crimes including selling rat and fox meat as beef and mutton, the public security ministry said.

News of the three-month operation added to a string of scandals that have galvanised public concern from recycled cooking oil to dangerous chemicals in baby milk powder.

Altogether, there were "382 cases of water-injected meat, fake mutton and beef, diseased meat, toxic and harmful meat products", the ministry said on its AROUND THE

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A file picture of Randy (L) and Rebbi Jackson, brother and sister of Michael Jackson, arriving at Los Angeles Superior Court on April 29.

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Katherine Jackson against tour promoter AEG Live.

Jackson's mother accuses AEG of negligently hiring doctor Conrad Murray — who was convicted of involuntary

manslaughter in 2011 over his son's death — and ignoring signs the singer was deeply unwell, in their pursuit of profits. AEG claims Murray was hired by Jackson, who it says had had been using propofol to help his chronic insomnia since the 1990s, as well as abusing painkillers for decades.

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website yesterday.

"Nine hundred and four suspects were arrested, more than 20,000 tons of various types of fake or inferior meat products were confiscated."

The public security ministry said the sting was part of a wider probe into food safety issues, from the discovery in March of thousands of dead pigs floating down a Shanghai river to the problem of "gutter oil".

Cheap recycled cooking oil is available nationwide made illegally from leftovers scooped out of restaurant drains.

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POLITICS

TDP bites back the panther

Revolt of three TRS leaders and their plans to join the TDP is seen as a revengeful act of the Desham for its loss of six MLAs to the TRS INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com

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he ‘Operation Akarsh’ of the Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) seems to have boomeranged. The pink party and its president who had launched the Akarsh programme a couple of days ago to strengthen the party and weaken the key rivals in the Telangana region could not have expected a bigger jolt.

The T party’s three senior leaders shocked many by announcing that they would quit the party. These leaders are: former MP and TRS general secretary Chada Suresh Reddy, state party secretaries D Sambaiah and M Sarangapani.

These leaders are reportedly planning to join the opposition

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CHENNAI: Former union minister and PMK youth wing leader Anbumani Ramadoss was arrested by Tamil Nadu police at his residence here on Friday morning, police said.

Ramadoss told reporters that the arrest was an act of political vendetta. He said the AIADMK would not a single seat in the 2014 parliament elections.

It is reported that the arrest was in connection with a speech that Ramadoss made at a public meeting last year.

On Tuesday, Ramadoss’ father and PMK founder S. Ramadoss, was arrested for defying police orders and holding protests at Villupuram, around 170 km from here.

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Telugu Desam Party. Sources close to these leaders told Postnoon that they have already got a green signal from the TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu.

The sudden decision of these leaders sent shock waves across the party cadres. The TRS leaders are seeing the hand of Telugu

Desam Party behind the revolt of the three TRS Leaders.

“The Telugu Desam Party was behind the entire episode. It is the worst affected party of the ongoing Telangana agitation as six of its MLAs joined the TRS condemning the attitude of Chandrababu Naidu over the T

issue. They are trying to take revenge for the losses they suffered at the hands of our party,” a senior TRS Leader told Postnoon on Thursday.

Though the three leaders who revolted against the party boss do not enjoy vast public support like other TRS leaders, the allegations made by these leaders shocked the TRS leadership.

State secretary D Sambaiah publicly alleged that no importance is being given to SC, ST, Dalit and Backward Classes leaders in the TRS and added that only upper caste leaders are being given priority by the TRS president KCR, who himself belongs to the upper caste Velama community.

The party feels that critical remarks made by Sambaiah

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would definitely create a bad image about the TRS in the eyes of people besides putting a check on its growing popularity.

“We have been talking about making a Dalit leader the chief minister of Telangana state. The people of the region received it well. But the remarks made by him (Sambaiah) would project us an anti-Dalit and anti-backward classes party,” a Dalit leader of the TRS told Postnoon. The party is planning to rope in its Dalit leaders to condemn the statements of the revolting leaders. It had already suspended the dissident leaders from the party on learning their plans to join TDP.

KARNATAKA POLLS

Like me? Vote for me

While social media provides politicians an additional platform to campaign, the real competition is who gets the maximum hits.

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adayatras, door-todoor campaigns and public rallies are the second choice for some senior political leaders in Karnataka who have realised the impact social media can make on people today and have quickly opened accounts on Facebook and Twitter.

While social media provides politicians an additional platform to campaign, the real competition is who gets the maximum hits.

Young politicians like Krishna Byregowda and Priya Krishna, both from Congress, have had accounts for long but their party veterans like G Parameshwara and Siddaramaiah have opened accounts just weeks before

the poll process started, as also Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and his deputy R Ashoka.

However, most of them do not operate their accounts personally or reply to the comments, they are managed by professionals hired for the purpose.

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Ashoka is candid enough to admit that he does not operate his account on a day-today basis.

Some experts in Basavanagudi are doing voluntary service and are operating his page which has got considerable hits ever since it

went live a few weeks ago.

Health Minister Arvind Limbavali who has been popular in the social media going by the hits he has received, says this mode of communication has helped him reach out to many segments of society.

With his friends’ list crossing 5,000, he has opened a new account.

Pictures of politicians as the “good samaritan” doing social work and involving themselves in humanitarian service are their biggest USP on social media.

One such picture that has got many comments for Ashoka is the placard which says “we don’t have vote but heart for you”, by north eastern students.

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Harassing hubby loses face, literally Man has lodged a complaint against his mother in law stating she forcibly shaved his moustache and head!

Mohd SUBHAN mohd.s@postnoon.com

Banjara Hills police have promised him they will investigate.

Meanwhile, mother in law is said to have told Rao next time she would cut much more if he did not behave!

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ere’s one home grown remedy for dowry harassment: tonsure the man’s moustache and head.

A young husband, Narasimha Rao, who got this treatment for harassing his wife demanding more dowries, complained to the Banjara Hills police the other day. Seeing his shaved head covered with a cap,

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policemen had a hearty laugh, it is said.

Rao married Yadamma, 22, three years ago. The couple has no children as yet. According to complaint by Yadamma and her mother Jagadamma, the man has been harassing his wife for dowry. He had begun physically

attacking her of late.

A few months ago, Jagadamma convened a meeting of elders and her relatives and submitted her daughter’s plight. They summoned Rao and asked him to behave. After much counselling the couple were let go.

It is said he did not create a problem for a few days but it did not last. As torture began, Jagadamma again called a meeting of the elders and tactfully asked Rao to be at home for discussing dowry.

He came eagerly but was crestfallen when he saw all pre-

QUEST FOR JUSTICE

Nail Sajjan, bag a million in greenbacks SFJ said it would engage top advocates to prosecute the appeal against the acquittal of Kumar before Delhi High Court. The reward presented an “opportunity for those who witnessed the killings to come forward with testimony and evidence to help victims in seeking justice against those Congress leaders who organized violence against Sikhs,” SFJ legal advisor Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said.

Since Kumar was acquitted on the basis of “benefit of doubt” because complainant Jagdish Kaur’s testimony was

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NEW YORK: A US-based Sikh rights group has announced a million-dollar reward for those individuals whose testimony and evidence may result in the conviction of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar.

The reward will be given to those individuals who will come forward with tips, evidence and testimony leading to the reversal of a Delhi court’s judgement acquitting Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) announced.

not corroborated by any independent witness, SFJ will campaign to find additional witnesses relating to Kumar’s role.

Several Sikh leaders in the US have expressed their “dismay and shock” at Kumar’s acquittal.

Sajjan Kumar’s acquittal Tuesday came almost three decades after an estimated 3,000 Sikhs were killed in three days of riots in New Delhi and elsewhere after the October 31, 1984, assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi.

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sent. Jagadamma had kept a scissor and soap ready. The elders helped him to be seated on a chair and the mother in law did the service, free—shaved the moustache and head—so that he will go around explaining. Gone to Tirupati will not wash as he was not known to be a devotee of Balaji. Rao works in a private guest house.

Banjara Hills police have promised him they will investigate.

Meanwhile, mother in law is said to have told Rao next time she would cut much more if he did not behave!

Mum beaten for delivering female baby!

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eela Veni, 38, was beaten and illegally detained by her husband at the railway quarters in North Lalaguda because she gave birth to a second baby girl, police claimed.

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abused her. She has registered a complaint with the police. She claims her mother-in-law abetted the crime. Veni said the son and mother had demanded money for delivering female children.

She claims she was locked in the house, and was only saved when her sister Shyamla alerted the neighbours, who rescued her.

Both mother and child are being treated in hospital.

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CIVIC

GHMC gears up for the coming deluge GHMC commissioner and mayor inspect nalas in the South Zone to ensure proper maintenance.

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team, led by GHMC Commissioner MT Krishna Babu and Mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain, yesterday inspected the nalas in the South zone. The team also comprised corporators and senior officials.

Nalas at Gowliguda, Imlibun, Yakutpura, Moinbagh, Chandrayangutta, Pool Bagh and Falaknuma were among those

City’s top officials asked senior GHMC personnel to ensure that garbage doesn’t clog sewers. inspected. Post inspection, they directed the chief engineer to erect chain link meshes around the nalas.

The leaders also interacted with contractors to know more

about maintenance of the nalas.

They were briefed about the labourers and the machinery used to maintain the nalas in the area. The leaders further enquired about how the silt was being disposed off. They directed the contractor to finish the cleaning work before the onset of monsoon around May 31.

During the inspection of Imlibun nala near the Gowliguda bus depot, the mayor and the commissioner requested the deputy commissioner of Circle

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No.5 to coordinate with APSRTC officials. They urged him to ensure that the garbage, debris and waste material is not thrown into the nalas. They further directed the AMOH (Assistant Medical Officer of Health) of Circle No.5 to put in place the garbage containers near the bus depot and nala.

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26/11 prosecutor killed

He was gunned down at a time when there have been important developments in both the Mumbai attack case and Bhutto assassination.

ISLAMABAD: A senior prosecutor handling the 26/11 Mumbai attack case and Benazir Bhutto assassination case was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in the Pakistani capital today, police said.

Gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at the car of FederalInvestigation Agency prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfizar Ali in the busy commercial area of Karachi Company at 7.30 am.

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Ali, who was driving, was hit by several bullets and lost control of the car. The vehicle hit a woman crossing the road and she too died later in hospital.

His bodyguard, Frontier Corps trooper Farman Ali, was injured in the attack.

Ali was heading for an antiterrorism court in the garrison city of Rawalpindi for a hearing of the Bhutto assassination case when he was attacked, his son Nisar told the media.

The team, also inspected one of the toilets in Yakutpura.

The toilet, which had no doors, was in a shabby condition as there was no worker to maintain it. Deputy commissioner of Circle No 4 has been asked to arrange proper maintenance.

The team also inspected a culvert at Hafeez Baba Nagar near Sunny Gardens. The work on the culvert was slow. The commissioner concerned has been asked to complete it on a priority basis.

Pakistani police officials examine the bullet-riddled car of a slain government prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar after an attack by gunmen in Islamabad on Friday.

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The prosecutor and his bodyguard were taken to the state-run Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.

Some doctors said Ali was killed instantly as several bullets had hit him in the face.

The gunmen escaped after

the brazen shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Ali’s son Nisar and unnamed colleagues were quoted by TV news channels as saying that the prosecutor had been receiving threats from a banned extremist group for some time.

His colleagues said he had continued pursing high-profile terrorism cases despite these threats.

The prosecutor was gunned down at a time when there have been important developments in both the Mumbai attack case and Bhutto assassination case.

On April 13, a private witness from Karachi had identified Shahid Jamil Riaz, one of the accused in the Mumbai attack case, as the person who had bought inflatable boats used by the terrorists who assaulted India’s financial hub in November 2008.

The Federal Investigation Agency had recently begun interrogating former president Pervez Musharraf over the 2007 assassination of Bhutto.

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RBI cuts repo rate, loans to get cheaper MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India on Friday cut a key policy rate by 0.25 percent. This will make auto, housing and other loans cheaper and help accelerate economic growth.

Repo rate, the rate at which the central bank lends to commercial banks, has been cut by 0.25 percent to 7.25 percent. The reverse repo rate, the rate that RBI pays to commercial banks on their parked money, has been cut to 6.25 percent.

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“The policy action undertaken in this review carries forward the measures put in place since January 2012 towards supporting growth in the face of gradual moderation of headline inflation,” the Reserve Bank of India said in its annual monetary policy for the financial year 201314.

The central bank has left the cash reserve ratio unchanged at 4 percent.

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NEWS BRIEFS Yasin Malik flown back to Srinagar

Woman killed by husband

Salman’s NGO comes to aid of drought-hit Maha

Former sarpanch shot dead in Kota

Doctor held for raping woman in hospital

NEW DELHI: Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was flown to Srinagar by Delhi Police which took him into preventive custody after denying permission for his protest to press for his demands, including handing over the body of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. Malik was to begin his 48hour-long hunger strike today.

BALLIA (UP): A woman was allegedly killed by her husband who suspected her of having an illicit relationship with his brother, police said today. Rajkumari, 32, was stabbed to death by her husband Rajkumar, who was also injured while trying to commit suicide, Superintendent of Police Onkar Singh said.

MUMBAI: Bollywood star Salman Khan’s ‘Being Human’ foundation has come forward to offer help in the drought-hit Marathwada region of Maharashtra.

The foundation will provide 2,500 water tankers with a storage capacity of 2,000 litres each to the drought affected districts of Marathwada from May 6 to 31.

KOTA: A 40-year-old former sarpanch was shot dead by three assailants when he was returning with his friend from Etava, police said today. Ramnivas was shot at point-blank range, they said, adding that he died on the spot. His friend managed to escape and reached Ayaana police station. A case of murder has been registered.

THANE: A doctor allegedly raped a young woman while she was undergoing treatment at his hospital here, police said today. Dr William Jacob admitted the 24-yearold victim at his private hospital in Diva township of Thane district last month following an illness, Mumbra police station sub-inspector Laxman B Rathod said.

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FAST FASHION INDUSTRY

Vietnam shows the way Vietnam shows it is possible to have a healthy garment industry.

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ndhra Bank today reported a marginal jump of 1.5 per cent in net profit at `345 crore when it revealed its fourth quarter results ended March 31, 2013. The stateowned bank’s net profit stood at `340 crore in the year-ago period.

Total income of the bank in the reported quarter grew by 15 per cent to `3,713 crore from `3,229 crore in JanuaryMarch 2012.

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rom factory fires to slave labour, the growth of mass manufacturing in Southeast Asia has not been problem-free, but after shedding its “sweatshop” reputation, the region could have lessons for Bangladesh.

Last week’s building collapse near Dhaka that left 550 dead or missing has unleashed global concern about conditions in the factories that produce fast fashion — cheap, catwalk-inspired clothes — for top global brands.

Amid talk of consumer boycotts, Bangladesh needs to reform its industry before fashionistas wonder “if they should be wearing bloodstained dresses,” Kalpona Akter of the

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Women work at a small size garment workshop on the outskirds of Hanoi.

Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity told AFP. Communist Vietnam which produces clothes for fashion industry giants Zara, Mango and H&M shows it is possible to have strong labour laws, fair wages and a healthy garment industry, experts say.

Conditions in factories have improved over the last decade and workers say they are now treated with more respect by employers and receive perks such as free accommodation and meals as standard.

“Technology has helped; we

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used to do so much manually but now we have machines,” added 36-year-old Linh, who started on the factory floor and is now a line manager at the Saigon Luggage Company.

Garment exports, worth $3.1 billion in the first quarter of 2013, were up 18.3 per cent year-onyear. The government’s “number one priority” is boosting technology, Vietnamese legal expert Nguyen Dinh Huan told AFP. In contrast, Bangladesh has “specialised in low-cost production” and embraced the sweat-

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To Mars, from Earth

Garment exports, worth $3.1 billion in the first quarter of 2013, were up 18.3 per cent year-on-year. shop model rather than investing in technology and upgrading, said Nayla Ajaltouni, co-ordinator of the campaign group Collectif Ethique sur l’etiquette.

Minimum wages were increased in Bangladesh in 2011

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“not for philanthropic reasons, but because protests were starting to disturb the supply chain”.

In Thailand standards in factories improved significantly after a fire at a toy factory killed 188 people in 1993.

In Cambodia, where the garment industry developed in the 1990s, avoiding the “sweatshop” label was a conscious strategy.

Unlike Vietnam, Dhaka neither imposes a standard annual minimum wage increase nor allows garment workers to unionise.

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Net non-performing assets stood at `2,409 crore during Q4 FY13 against `756 crore during the same period previous year, according to the statement by the bank.

The employee cost during the reported quarter stood at `381 crore as against `319 crore during the same period of previous fiscal.

Other operating expenses stood at `213 crore as against `164 crore in the last quarter of FY’12.

For the whole year ended March 31, 2013, total income of the bank stood at `13,957 crore against `12,199 crore in 2011-12.

In financial year 2013, the net profit was `1,289 crore against `1,345 crore in financial year12.

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asa is inviting public to submit their names, short poems and personal messages on-line for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian atmosphere.

The DVD will carry every name submitted. The public also is encouraged to submit a message in the form of a three-line poem or haiku, NASA said.

The DVD will be in NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, which is scheduled for launch in November. The DVD is part of the mission’s ‘Going to Mars Campaign’ co-ordinated at the University of Colorado.

The deadline for all submissions is July 1. An on-line public vote to determine the top three messages to be placed on the DVD will begin on July 15.

Fire fighting helicopters make water drops onto a hillside behind homes threatened by the out of control wildfire on May 2, 2013 in Newbury Park, California.

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News FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013 Ode to Jeff, we’ll miss you THE HUMAN CONDITION Dean Williams

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he name Jeff Hanneman may mean little to most people, but to a group of us who came of age in the 80s, the founder of Slayer, is an icon. I was 11 when I went through my first existential crisis, and the misanthropic worm began to burrow its way into my marrow. I was slowly rebelling against the music of my parents, comprising CCR, Fleetwood Mac, and Led Zeppelin. But even the angst-ridden punk of the Sex Pistols and Dead Kennedys did little to placate the rising tide within.

It was 1987 before I stumbled on two albums that would change my life for good.

Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All and Slayer’s Show No Mercy were like Dark Angel’s that descended to carve a path through life for me. It was the music we had craved for, and in a Third World country it was hell-sent.

Slayer and Metallica, along with Venom, Misfits, and Motorhead, would form the basis of a musical foundation that stays with me till this day. Jeff Hanneman, like Dave Mustaine, Kirk Hammett and Eric Meyer, would compose a riff that would enable us to approach fresh hells with a grim determination born from the knowledge that not only were we not alone, but somewhere in the Bay Area, there were people who understood us.

Since 2011 Hanneman battled necrotising fasciitis, an illness that threw up no small amounts of irony, but eventually it was a failed liver that killed him this morning.

Hanneman will never know what he meant to us.

But I can tell you one thing; today Slayer songs will be looping on music players all around the world. It is the end of an era, one that began its demise when Metallica released the Black Album.

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Pakistani prisoner attacked in Jammu jail Sanaullah, resident of Sialkot, was attacked by a former Indian Army soldier following an altercation.

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JAMMU: A Pakistani prisoner in the high security Kot Bhalwal jail here was critically injured when he was attacked by a fellow prisoner, police said today, a day after Indian death row pris-

A file picture showing students praying for Sarabjit.

oner Sarabjit Singh died after being attacked in Lahore.

Sanaullah, a resident of Sialkot, was attacked by a former Indian Army soldier, convicted for murder, following an altercation yesterday, a police officer said.

He received serious head injuries and was taken to the Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu, where doctors said he had slipped into a coma, much like Sarabjit Singh who was attacked in a Lahore jail on April 26 and died yesterday.

“He has suffered serious head injuries and is in a coma.

He has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and we are planning surgery,” a doctor said.

The administration has readied stand-by arrangements to shift Sanaullah for specialised treatment outside Jammu and Kashmir “if required”, an official said.

Police said Sanaullah was being tried for murder since the late 1990s for carrying out act of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.

‘What did NDA do for Sarabjit’s release?’

NEW DELHI: The Congress today questioned what the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government did to ensure the release of Sarabjit Singh when it was in power, adding that the focus should now be on other Indians in Pakistani jails.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cornered the government over Sarabjit’s death yesterday, demanding that diplomatic ties with Pakistan be scaled down until an assurance is offered for the security of Indians in Pakistani jails.

BJP leaders had also blamed the government for not doing enough to save Sarabjit Singh.

“When then prime minister (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) went to Lahore, was Sarabjit Singh’s release on the agenda?” Congress leader Manish Tewari asked yesterday.

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former policeman on trial for murder in the Philippines escaped from jail yesterday, then embarrassed authorities further by speaking to media outlets over the phone.

Ex-police superintendent Cezar Mancao, charged with murder over the 2000 killings of a well-known publicist and his driver, casually walked out of a detention centre in Manila with the help of prison wardens, authorities said.

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“His escape is a big slap to the bureau’s face,” National Bureau of Investigation director Nonnatus Rojas told reporters after confirming the escape.

Rojas said two guards who apparently let Mancao escape had been detained.

Footage from a security camera showed Mancao calmly leaving his cell before dawn carrying a bag containing his personal belongings, according to Rojas. Mancao, who has been in jail since 2009, then spoke with national television and radio stations to explain that he fled because he feared he would be killed in detention. “I reached the point where I could not take it any more,” he repeatedly said in the interviews.

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Rio lagoon to be stench free A 40m reals engineering project has been proposed to remove the stench from Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, which is the venue for rowing during the 2016 Olympics.

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40m reals engineering project is in the pipeline to remove the stench from the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The lagoon will be the venue for rowing events during the 2016 Olympics.

The smell has sporadically plagued the “Marvellous City” for centuries. The reason for the stink is the seasonally fetid waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon.

The odour has raised questions about the city’s efforts to clean up and modernise in time for the World Cup and Olympics. Some have voiced suspicions of corruption and inefficiency because the smell seemed worse than ever this year despite the large sums of money that have been spent in recent years to reduce pollution.

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So foul was the smell in March that thousands of fish died because of it and had to be scooped off.

The lagoon, which sits between Ipanema and the Tijuca forest, was once three times its current size, but it has been gradually diminished by landfill projects as Rio spread from its colonial centre to the tourist resorts along the coast.

The lagoon is fed by sea water via a canal from the Atlantic and fresh water that cascades down from the surrounding hills via three rivers. The result is a fragile ecosystem of brakish water with a very low oxygen content of between 0.5

and 0.9% that is quickly sucked up by spawning fish, savelha, and the organic matter that is carried from the forests during the autumn rainy season.

The city and national government recently approved a plan to build four, 2.8 metre diameter pipes under Ipanema at an estimated cost of 40m reals. This would allow more oxygen into the waters of the lagoon and make it easier for the savelha to swim out to the sea. Another 20m reals will be spent on expanding the nearby beach of Leblon, which has lost been steadily losing sand to the canal.

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AADHAAR EXCLUSIVE

Aam aadmi arm-twisted?

Fuelled by rumours that Aadhaar is going to be their lifeline, people queue up for it.

But experts question the rationale of compelling people on a non-essential service.

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n April 11, the Delhi High Court pulled up the state government over a PIL filed by an individual for illegally making the Aadhaar card enrolment mandatory.

"The entire project is meant to be voluntary in nature and this is reflected in the Aadhaar enrolment form that clearly mentions that the enrolment is free and voluntary," Ashok Chandolia noted in his PIL .

However, within the first few phases of the project’s implementation, executive orders were issued, making the card mandatory for obtaining various certificates relating to "caste, domicile, income, death and birth." The petition also said that the card has been made necessary for registration of documents relating to

property, will and marriages.

So legally and on the record, while the Centre claims that enrolment is not mandatory, many essential services are linked to the Aadhaar enrolment.

While the basis of the card was to empower the poor who lack ID proofs to access various welfare schemes, it has slowly turned into a pre-requisite,

thanks to a few loopholes in the legislation.

“The UID’s concept note states that enrolment will not be mandatory but benefits and services linked to the UID will be mandated. This is the government’s way of making the usage of Aadhaar compulsory while not actually enforcing it on anyone. So any PIL should oppose

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DP chief Chandrababu Naidu, who faces desertion from the party, received a boost the other day when hero Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, son of Hari Krishna, dismissed reports that there were differences between his father and Naidu.

Kalyan Ram said this after visiting Tirupati yesterday.

He said the media had been imagining things and writing about differences where none exist.

He said there was no ques-

Kishan Reddy, BJP State president, says, “The project was forced down people’s throats when they did not need it. Now they are making it mandatory and blackmailing people into enrolling for this card. While they are spending crores of rupees on this project, we see so many cases of data missing, erroneous entries or people not

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receiving their cards at all. It is nothing but a great scam of the government at the Centre.”

Civil society activists feel there is a lot amiss. Rakesh Reddy Dubbudu, RTI activist, says “ It is simply a way of coercion. The whole thing looks like conspiracy where data has to be collected for some nefarious purpose.”

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the linkages of the Aadhaar with benefits and services, and not the mandate part, since in reality, it does not exist at all,” says VS Bhushan, High Court advocate.

His opinion throws light on the nefarious plans of the Aadhaar-government service linkage, which has so far not been questioned in any PIL. But why has there been no significant opposition to the many loopholes within the judiciary circles?

Viplava Simha Reddy, High Court advocate, says, “ Since the project has been initiated by the Central Government and the role of the State governments is to only follow orders, effective attention to this issue can be given if one approachs a senior counsel in the Supreme Court.”

Opposition leaders say they see no sense in the project and will raise the before polls to create awareness about this sham.

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of fresh rift in the Nandamuri family was the absence of Jr NTR and Kalyan Ram at the Visakhapatnam public meeting, which was organised as a grand finale to the padayatra of Chandrababu Naidu recently.

A 16.5-metre-tall inflatable Rubber Duck art installation is seen at the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. The inflatable duck by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman will be on display until June 9.

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WORLD BRIEFS Myanmar leader plans Washington visit

Aus orders Growlers to plug new fighter gap

Death toll hits 482 in Bangladesh

Over 700 Iraqis killed in April: United Nations

Indonesia arrests 2 for Myanmar Embassy plot

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ustralia will purchase a dozen new Boeing EA-18G Growler jets to plug a gap left by Lockheed Martin's embattled Joint Strike Fighter programme under a new military blueprint published Friday.

The roadmap includes a commitment of Aus$1.5 billion to buy the 12 specialised Super Hornets and affirms plans for 12 submarines.

he death toll in Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster rose to 482 on Friday after 41 bodies were pulled from the wreckage of an eight-storey building overnight, the army said. Major Harunur Rashid of the army control room told AFP that recovery efforts had gathered pace and the "death toll now stands at 482".

total of 712 people were killed in violence across Iraq in April, bringing the country's death toll from violence to its highest level since June 2008, said a UN statement. According to latest figures released by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, 1,633 others were wounded in acts of terrorism and violence throughout Iraq.

ndonesia's elite anti-terror squad seized five homemade bombs and arrested two suspected militants who allegedly planned to attack the Myanmar Embassy to protest that country's treatment of Muslims, police said today. The two men were arrested in central Jakarta on a motorbike just before midnight yesterday.

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assive competitive show of strength by communities on religious occasions is a worrisome development for both the police and for the people of this City.

Senior police officers shared their concern with Postnoon.

“One thing leads to another,” said a police officer. “Milad unNabi procession used to be a large one traditionally; of late, some community leaders are pushing it further to make it a show of strength. The result is that Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti this year were very huge.

I have never seen such massive rallies on these occasions before.”

Police believe this is an unhealthy show of strength and not spiritual fervour; it puts a lot of pressure on law and order. “Is it really necessary?’”they ask.

The officer of a deputy commissioner rank said this trend would further polarise communities and the obvious result would be clashes. Mainstream political parties will lose and regional parties will flourish. “Whales will be devoured by mackerels,” is the way he described the situation.

It is not easy to control the crowds. Even a small child can throw a pebble at the milling crowd and create a chaos. MS

NAIDU, THE ‘SUPERSTAR’ TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu has outshone his illustrious father-in-law NT Ramarao in histrionics, if one is to go by his stupendous performances in the marathon padayatra.

While NTR played double or treble roles in films, Babu performed several at one go. The day he was given a grand welcome back from his walkathon on Sunday last, the City saw posters in his different roles: as a boot polisher, provider of kallu to the thirsty, a generous chef making food for feast, Santa for kids, provider for poor women and a knight at war with the evils.

An acolyte of Babu remarked, “Our leader performed 101 roles. Can any super-

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Are videogames too violent?

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star claim a similar feat?” There is something in that.

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any moment.

“Is there any wonder he chose to trust lord Venkateswara instead of human allies?” asks an admirer of Kiran. Kiran shed his locks at Tirupati in a thanksgiving for saving him from the “jackals,” says the fan.

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The bard who said crown is thorn knew what he was talking. No chief minister of Andhra Pradesh was called upon to bear a bigger thorn than N Kiran Kumar Reddy. He presides over an out of shape Cabinet which is not his own. He suffers a festering wound called Telangana which is not his making. He is accused of being “communal” by an ally and vows to finish him off. He has several rivals waiting to unseat him. He has to face the ire of a party born in the name of a former CM. And yet, wherever he turns he only sees sycophants who are just clouds that vanish

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video games in Lanza's basement where he spent hours alone playing with the windows blacked out.

LSU child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Kristopher Kaliebe said to allow a child to act out a violent fantasy over and over again seems like a bad idea.

Earlier in 2013, President Obama called for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to renew scientific research into the relationship between videogames, media images and violence.

Tulane criminologist Dr Peter Scharf says more research is needed. He believes the fantasy world is very real for certain people.

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laying videogames can prevent and even reverse deteriorating brain functions, a study says.

The University of Iowa study of hundreds of people age 50 and older found that those who played a videogame were able to improve a range of cognitive skills, and reverse up to seven years of age-related declines.

"We know that we can stop this decline and actually restore cognitive processing speed to people," said Fredric Wolinsky, a professor at the university and lead author of the paper. The study is the latest in a series of research projects examining why people, as they age, lose "executive function" of the brain.

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It seems not even deputy district collectors are spared from insubordination. When this reporter was at the district collectorate seeking details about Aadhaar enrolment statistics, the official concerned was fretting and fuming. "Even wild beasts will respond to my call faster than these people working here," he said and spent the next half hour narrating his woes to the reporter. "What am I to do with these people? Fetching a glass of water takes more than an hour here,” he says.

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THE SCREENING ROOM WITH HEMANTH KUMAR

YOU’RE THE WRITER The story so far: Gautham meets his college friend Rashmi after a long time. The duo has 48 hours and Gautham believes that’s more than enough to accomplish...

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lthough Gautham has promised that he has plenty of surprises in store for Rashmi, he has no clue what to do. Yet, he believes that a miracle will occur. Gautham decides to take her on a long drive and an hour later, they are several miles away from the city...

Gautham: Do you remember what day it is?

Rashmi: Wait...is it your birthday? Oh, God! How can I forget?

Gautham: (Smiles) No. We met on this day for the first time several years ago. You don’t remember?

Rashmi: Yikes. You don’t have to make me feel so guilty all over again. But honestly, I don’t remember a lot of stuff which happened in college.

Gautham: I knew that!

Rashmi: <Screams> Watch out!!!!

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This is the continuation of a fictional story, first published on April 26, about Gautham and Rashmi. Based on these two scenes from the series, now it is your turn to continue the narrative. Send us your entries about what you think would happen in the next two scenes. The best entry will be published next Friday. You can mail me at hemanth.k@postnoon.com.

A star in the making...

AP Government’s decision to hike the ticket prices in multiplexes and single screen theatres has received a mixed reaction. Does it really favour a chosen few?

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here’s blood on the road, but neither Rashmi nor Gautham can figure out what struck the car. If it was a person or an animal, they didn’t know. But they can’t find anything close to the car. Rashmi begins to panic. Gautham tries to hold her hand. She shivers with fear but begins to suspect Gautham.

Rashmi: Is this some kind of prank? Are you trying to fool around with me? It’s not funny Gautham.

Gautham: What do you mean it’s a prank? Both of us saw something hit the car. Didn’t we?

Rashmi: I thought I did. But why can’t we find anything here? And what sort of a place is this?

It’s so deserted.

Gautham: I know. It’s so strange. Oh look! I can see smoke up there (points at a hillock near the accident spot) Rashmi: Yes! (Accidentally touches the blood on the car) Damn! Did you take a look at the blood?

I am quite sure that it’s not the blood of a human being or an animal. It’s not this gooey.

Gautham: Gooey? (touches the blood and screams) Holy cow! I think I have seen something like this before. (begins thinking) Rashmi: What do you mean you have seen it before? Are you alright? Or are you hallucinating?

Gautham: You have got to trust me now. I think I know what it is, but we have to go up that hillock to confirm something.

Rashmi: Confirm what?

Gautham: You’ll know when you see the ship.

Rashmi: A ship? You mean a ‘ship’ ship? In a place like this?

Gautham: No. It’s could be an Alien Spaceship!

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here is a raging debate over how the new ticket prices are going to have an impact on filmgoers and the public reaction doesn’t seem to be in favour of what a section of film industry has been lobbying for several years now. Will people really spend `200 on a film in a multiplex or `70 for a balcony ticket in a single screen theatre? Compared to most other cities like Bangalore, New Delhi, Pune and Mumbai, the ticket prices in Hyderabad have been traditionally quite low and this increase in price tickets hasn’t, naturally, gone down well with a lot of people. After all, we cannot fathom why anyone would spend so

much for a movie.

In fact, a section of film industry representing the interests of low budget filmmakers believes that the new system will deter people from watching their films which is, in a way, true.

If a film doesn’t have a good prerelease buzz, there are little chances of it doing good business unless it has exceptional content. And then there’s threat of piracy, which a lot of people believe will take a heavy toll on film industry.

Despite several other requests, particularly those pertaining to increase in the number of prints and number of shows of small films, the government finally decide to agree to only on ticket price hike. The reason behind why they ignored other requests is left to our imagination, but there’s a need to introduce differential pricing on movie tickets.

Currently, no matter what film you watch, the ticket prices remain the same irrespective of the day or language. It would be great if ticket prices are lowered for morning shows and have separate pricing for weekdays and weekends like what multiplexes in other cities do. At least, that would make a lot of students and youth happy.

RUMOUR HAS IT ...

WEEKEND WATCH

Telugu movies find a new haven...

T here has been a sudden spurt in the number of Telugu films being shot in European countries, other than Switzerland, of late.

Earlier this year, Iddarammayilatho was extensively shot in Barcelona, Balupu was shot in Portugal and Vishnu’s upcoming film Doosukeltha is currently being shot in Slovenia.

Thailand and Malaysia are slowly but surely losing their sheen, unless the ‘script’ demands it. So what has

led to this sudden change in plans? Rumour has it that European countries especially Spain, Italy, Portugal and few others of Eastern Europe have been approaching filmmakers in India to shoot films in

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here hasn’t been an actor like Vijay Sethupathi in Tamil cinema in a long time.

Not only has he become the most sought after actor if you have a great script, but also he seems to have cracked the code to pull the theatres to the screens solely on his emerging popularity. It all began with Karthik Subbaraj’s horror film Pizza, which went on to become a surprise hit last year. In December, 2012, he scored another hit with Balaji Tharaneetharan’s Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom and his latest film Soodhu Kavvum, which released a few days ago, is on track to become a big hit. His unassuming demeanour and willingness to trust new directors has earned him a good fan following. A big thumbs up to this rising star in Tamil cinema.

their respective countries.

Our filmmakers are more than glad to oblige.

The line producers of Telugu films, in association with the local crew in Europe, have made it a lot more easier to shoot abroad. In the past, the cast and crew used to be in a hurry to return to India, but these days, they seem to be preferring extended trips.

Is there more than what meets the eye? Of course. Who wouldn’t love a free trip to such places!

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Not in a mood to go to a theatre this weekend? Here’s a brief list of films you can watch in your home.

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Waltz With Bashir (2008) A gut-wrenching Hebrew animated documentary, Waltz With Bashir is about a filmmaker who tries to recollect what had happened during the Lebanon war. A must watch.

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Go (1999) An edge of the seat comedy thriller film which narrates three intertwining plots linked together by a drug deal.

Directed by Doug Liman, Go is a smart film by all means.

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The Invisible War (2012) Directed by Kirby Dick, The Invisible War is an award-winning documentary about sexual assault in the United States military. It gives a deep and shocking insight into how women are treated.

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Comment As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.

This expresses my idea of democracy.

FADING DIPLOMACY

Agence France-Presse

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fter weeks of soaring tensions over US-South Korean war games that ended this week, North Korea has toned down its warlike rhetoric in what observers say is a sign that it may now be ready to talk.

Pyongyang had accused the United States of using the twomonth joint exercises as a platform for a planned military strike, and reacted furiously to the use of nuclear-capable bombers in the drills.

But after weeks of threats of missile strikes and nuclear war by the North, images of its leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting troops have given way to pictures of his visits to sports events and a health complex with his wife.

“North Korea appears to be taking a breather after its brinkmanship reached fever pitch,” said Dongguk University professor Kim Yong-Hyun.

He said Pyongyang could further shift its stance after an upcoming summit in Washington on May 7 between US President Barack Obama and South Korean leader Park GeunHye, who took office in February.

“North Korea wants some gestures from Obama. Then it may try to open dialogue with the United States as it did before,” he said.

If it fails to achieve its goal, “the regime may go ahead with missile launches or another nuclear test”, Kim said.

While the North has a history of sabre-rattling followed by a cooling-off period in an effort to win concessions from the West, experts say Washington and Seoul may be losing patience.

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BULLIES DON’T PLAY

BY RULEBOOK HARD TALK

Abraham Lincoln Former US President

North tones down rhetoric DANIEL ROOK

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS With competetion diminishing from other loose cannons of India’s Grand Old Party, Salman Khurshid is on a roll with his metaphors. Considering India’s position vis-a-vis China, he would be lucky if Muhammad Ali doesn’t personally come and knock the daylights out of him

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here is something wrong with our country’s collective psyche. It’s sickening.

Neighbour after neighbour ill treats us and get away with it. The country’s ruling class, the Congress and its allies, make pitiable motions of protest, such as summoning the envoy and registering the protests!

No bully ever has gone by the rulebook. Show me one.

Bullying essentially stems from the knowledge that the quarry is weak and has no scope of countering it. It is a canine psychology. If you run, the dog runs after you, dare it and it withdraws.

What the ordinary citizen, who is also the tax payer, does not understand is the wisdom of maintaining a massive defence force, over a lakh in uniform and all the attending paraphernalia spending a massive fortunes of its resources. The question is, for what?

It all began in 1962 when a naive Jawaharlal Nehru government drafted poems and sang India-China bhai bhai. The dragon had a hearty laugh when it overran thousands of kilometres of Indian Territory

and killed an unspecified number of Indian youths. It was the most heinous and the most disgraceful act any nation was called upon to bear.

Is it a coincidence that the same Nehru family rules the country today and the same treatment is meted out to the nation by the same enemies?

While China is a larger country with greater resources, India has enough muscle and resources at least to protect its borders. Don’t we have?

Pardoning the enemy is a mistaken charity—learn something from Prithvi Raj Chauhan.

Don’t we ever learn from history?

The way a headstrong puny country like Pakistan did to our parliament was the second most shameful act after the Chinese aggression. Would any country in the world allow its hallowed precincts to be attacked by a foreign mercenary and yet sit making noises of protests? And yet, this country swallowed its pride.

The latest is Sarabjit Singh.

The man was subjected to untold sufferings devoid of any mercy and yet our governmental response was, “It is sad.”

Not reacting both militarily and diplomatically is a folly because no bully has ever read the Biblical parable of showing the other cheek. By now, India must know its biggest bully is

not Pakistan but China. All actions from 1962 to Tibet and periodic incursions in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh and constructing highway are all shiny examples of brazen bullying.

Blocking the dragon from varied ways besides military action should have been taken up. Chinese low quality goods are flooding Indian markets and

they benefit from this. Why do we allow this? Every ordinary citizen is asking these questions and the government goes on making predictable noises. This won’t do.

Let us understand that death comes to the brave only once while the poltroon suffers deaths many times. Should we continue to sing, ‘Mere watan ke logon...’ after 50 years?

EDITORIALS Show some gumption, India A long way to go

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ll those concerned with this country’s future must contemplate on why India is taken lightly by its neighbours despite being a nuclear-tech power in the sub continent. We have everything from human resource to technology and yet a gadfly like Pakistan humiliates us. Can an ordinary tax payer be faulted if he asks what use is the use of a gigantic military we pay for if they are to sit and silently watch Chinese marching in? Could he be faulted, again, if he asks how a pauper country such as Pakistan whose existence itself is in peril browbeats us and manhandle Indian prisoners? Even a small island country Sri Lanka asks us to keep off though ethnic Tamils’ lives are at stake. It is a fact that it is not wealth or weapons that earn respect for a country. It is the gumption, its self respect that finally matters. It is this that India is miserably lacking. It’s no use blaming Congress alone, our collective psyche is sick, and therefore weak. Nobody can add spine to a creature, you know. Sad, India.

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aif Ali Khan says Bollywood should be a force to reckon with, on par with Hollywood, in the East.

On the occasion of the birthday of our finest filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, let’s be honest with ourselves.

Hollywood comes up with original stuff most of the times. In most blockbuster movies in Bollywood, we have scenes ripped off from Hollywood. We have buffed up beafcakes doing outlandish stuff in most movies, serenading and dancing with half-clad belles, and the highlight of the movie not being the story, but item numbers. We have a long way to go yet, Saif. But please hope on.

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Living spaces FACTS ABOUT BACHUPALLY SCHOOLS:

Silver Oaks School Kennedy School COLLEGES:

BVRIT Nizampet, Bachupally JNTU College of Engineering, KPHB Colony VNRVJIET, Nizampet Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering

EDUCATION HUB BACHUPALLY

Infrastructure ROAD

Connected to Miyapur (15 min) Connected to Nizampet X Road (15 min) Connected to Hitec City (30-35 min) Connected to Pragati Nagar (10 min) Connected to ORR (10 min) RAIL

This one of the very few places in the City where one can either buy a economical flat at less than `20 lakh or buy a luxury villa with just over `50 lakh. Availability of water is the only major problem.

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ver the years, Bachupally has emerged as an educational hub of the City. The children or the residents here do not need to travel long hours to reach world-class educational institutes. Be it play school or an engineering college, education institutes for any level is in the radius of around 0-5 km in this locality.

The real estate slump in the

City after 2007 affected the real estate market of this region too.

The property prices have been almost stagnant for years and there were not any new project launches during this time. But with recent real estate recovery, many developers in and around have initiated new projects.

Developers say that the real estate market in the locality is back on track with moderate growth in prices over last few months.

This one of the very few places in the City where one can either buy a economical flat at

less than `20 lakh or buy a luxury villa with just over `50 lakh.

Talking about strengths of the locality, D Ramchandra Varma, manager (sales), Praneeth Group of companies, says, “The children of the residents around this locality enjoy the accesses to all levels of education in close proximity. Many buyers are ready to take the pain of travelling to office but want their children to have the luxury of their school within walking distance. The prices are moderate as compared to KPHB Colony or Miyapur. A buyer can

buy villa here at a price of flat in KPHB Colony. If a buyer is ready to travel for another 5-6 km, he can own an asset, which will stay valuable for a lifetime.”

Explaining further, he says, “A flat is a place just to live but doesn’t appeal as a valued property as compared to a villa.

Neither the floor nor the roof belongs to the resident. The undivided land share, which he gets, is very minimal and not really useful for any future construction. On the contrary, the buyer gets a specific land in the case of villa, which can be used

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BECKONS BUYERS by his heir for future construction. Land value continues to grow with the time, whereas the apartment flat may have the growth momentum for the first five years but gets lower with the construction getting old.”

Bachupally falls under panchayat and there is also a proposal to merge this locality with GHMC. However, falling under a panchayat created certain issues for the flat buyers. Most of the developers, constructed apartments with just panchayat permissions, have to undergo BPS and LRS schemes to regularise their property. A buyer in this locality has to be careful and cross check the legal validation of property before buying it.

On the negative side, the

locality also doesn’t have Manjeera connection for drinking water. Due to very low underground water levels, except for few villas and apartments, most of the residents rely on water tankers. Builders hope the scenario of drinking water may change with the availability of Krishna water in to the City.

However, the developers in the locality are confident about future potential. “The locality is well connected with the city.

There will be two metro stations and one Inter-city bus terminal (ICBT) with in 6 km. With the merger to GHMC, the village will definitely gain sheen. One can expect a growth of 20-30 per cent in next two to three years,” Varma adds.

SRR PRIDE n Gated community with 52 villas in 4 acres n Standard plot size: 189 sq yd n Built-up area: 2,400 sft n Vaastu compliant n Well designed layout n Final approved layout n Wide CC Roads n Underground cables n Elevation with good aesthetics n Well-planned spaces with good ventilation n Family-friendly Club House n Gym, pool and sports facilities n Green area for tiny tots n Central security n Back-up power supply for one fan and light n Price: `69,60,000 (includes amenities)

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ish the project, the more will be the debt burden, which in turn will push the property values up by the time it reaches the customer.

To make both parties winners, we requested the government to remove redundant NOCs. The system can be made better by delegating powers to other qualified professionals.

For example, why one has to go to the fire department for an NOC? We regularly work with architects, who have similar fire safety expertise. They can delegate or empanel architects in giving permissions or NOCs under stipulated regulations. At the same time, the authority should have every right to inspect and give orders as and

eal estate market in the City is gradually turning out be a seller’s market.

The second half of 2013 will be a seller’s market, where there will be many potential buyers but not many properties for sale.

Over last four years, the City market was a buyer’s market wherein there was slump in the economy and there were more properties for sale as compared to by the buyers.

Real estate should be always be buyer’s market for the growth of industry and economy. Government should see that there is a right environment for buying and developing property.

In a supportive environment, more realtors get into the development of property. For instance, government should provide across-the-table sanctions, which will eventually push more stock in to the market. There should be more land

Delays due to red tape increases the costs for the builder, who in turn passes it on to the buyer. This does not bode well for the industry.

for residential usage in master plans. This will create a win-win situation for both buyers and sellers, and a sustainable buyers market.

Sometimes, the government does not understand our issues.

Excessive bureaucracy is creating many barriers. All these permissions and clearances should be time-bound. For instance, now, a builder is spending 4-6 months on single-storeyed buildings and 8-10 months on multi-storeyed buildings. This is the time that developer spends excluding NOCs that he has to get from various organisations.

Almost two years of valuable developer time is spent on these permissions.

The more time it takes to fin-

when necessary.

On request of CREDAI, the ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation constituted a committee, headed by Dhanendra Kumar, to streamline procedures and give online sanctions for real estate projects.

Various ministries from where realtors get permissions are made members of the committee. There are some proactive state governments, who started implementing this procedure on trial basis. We recently submitted a report to the ministry and seek that this online permission procedure will be implemented across the country in any of the central government schemes.

The writer is the national president of CREDAI.

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spotlight

DESI BEATS RULE

DJs Amar and Swadeep will be belting out the latest bollywood chartbusters tonight at Rain.

LITTLE WONDERS

Two batches of I am Gifted, an international programme that empowers children to achieve excellent grades and develop their mind-set will commence in the City from May 20.

MONEY MATTER

A DOSE OF FASHION

Andhra Bank announced the ďŹ nancial results for the quarter/year that ended on March 31, 2013 at Park Hyatt on Thursday.

Chairman and managing director BA Prabhakar presided over the function.

Sunrisers Hyderabad team made a visit to Manyavar store, Panjagutta. They were seen sporting ethnic wear during the visit.

NEW OPENING

BANG ON TREND The launch of TONI&GUY at Road No 36, Jubilee Hills was a grand affair. Tollywood celebrities and models walked the ramp sporting trendy hairdos at the event.

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health

LOW-COST ELECTRIC WHEELCHAIR TO BE LAUNCHED SOON

Physically challenged people may soon be able to buy easy mobility, doctors here Thursday said. The Single Motor Propelled Wheelchair (SiMPl-WC) will be jointly developed by the department of assistive technology, ISIC and the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), University of Pittsburgh.

IANS

DIGEST THIS

Vitamin supplements are necessary most of the time to fuel our body with additional nutrients, but there is a side-effect to it. Most vitamins are not really useful when taken as supplements to a normal diet. In fact, they can be potentially harmful. We tackle some associated myths.

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TAKE THIS: Let’s face it.

Eating leafy greens like spinach and broccoli is the last thing on your mind. So you’d rather pop a pill, since the supplement helps give you the same nutrient.

FACT IS: There is a reason why doctors/mums ask you to eat your veggies, or else you would be eating pills all four meals a day. There is no substitute to the healthy, diseasefighting benefits that vegetables offer. For proof, you might want to read a recent study from the Oregon State University that found that an important phytochemical in broccoli and other similar veggies is poorly absorbed and much less beneficial when taken in supplement form.

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TAKE THIS: Since you are taking vitamins, you need to cut down on your diet as you will be receiving extra doses of nutrients.

FACT IS: Some individuals believe that taking a supplement or a multi-vitamin is more effective than having a smart diet. Ideally, we should be consuming our nutrients through fresh and healthy foods. There is nothing wrong with taking a daily multi-vitamin, but try to ensure that this is not your only healthy route. Balance your vitamin intake with a reasonable amount of fruits, vegetables and lean meat.

TAKE THIS: Popping vitamin pills are the best way to ensure a healthy body for all.

FACT IS: True, these vitamins do help along the way but depending on these multi-coloured pills to do the ‘taking care of your health’ part is a little too far-fetched. The body actually has limited storage for these nutrients and supplements. A lot of these are excreted from our bodies. The best way is to do regular exercise and eat a wide variety of food based on their nutritional values.

Before you pop

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TAKE THIS: You associate letters of the vitamin with the diseases, like A for asthma or anaemia and C for cold FACT IS : You religiously swallow a whole cluster of vitamins that range from A to Z, proof enough you know nothing about them or are under some misconception. Vitamin C is not C for cold.

Even if a vitamin does no harm, it may do, well, nothing. A review of 30 studies involving more than 11,000 people who took at least 200 mg of vitamin C daily found that it offered little protection in reducing the length or severity of common colds for most people.

It did work for some people, such as marathon runners and skiers, who undergo periods of high stress, but the study’s authors say the rest of us shouldn’t bother taking it.

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TAKE THIS: You eat Vitamins A, B, C, E and K and a whole host of other pills and therefore you don’t need to exercise.

FACT IS: No, that’s the lamest excuse you can come up with for not heading to the gym or moving those rusty old bones. In fact, a daily 30 minute quick walk will do more for you than taking supplements, especially if you have high blood pressure, a heart condition, or are overweight.

ANEWS PP-LYBRIEFS YOURSELF Pedometer Free This app will work as you walk, run, or jog — outdoors or on your treadmill! The Free Pedometer implements the same special algorithm that is used in hardware pedometers. It will measure steps, distance, workout time, calories burned, speed, and pace. The body tracker allows you to log your body parameter. itunes.apple.com

HOUSECALL

DID YOU KNOW?

Slapped cheek syndrome

Fruit flavoured snacks use car wax

Slapped cheek syndrome is a viral infection that is most common in children, although it can affect anyone. Slapped cheek syndrome usually affects children between the ages of three and 15. Most cases develop during the late winter or early spring. The most common symptom is the appearance of a distinctive bright red rash on the cheeks. nhs.uk

Carnauba wax, a key ingredient in car wax that produces a brilliant shine, is also found in gummy bears and fruit flavoured snacks.

It comes from the leaves of the carnauba palm tree, native to Brazil. The leaves are beaten and then the wax is refined, bleached and sold. besthealthmag.ca

PIONEERS Theodor Billroth Christian Albert Theodor Billroth was a Prussian-born Austrian surgeon and amateur musician. As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. He was responsible for a number of landmarks in surgery, including the first esophagectomy, the first laryngectomy, and most famously, the first successful gastrectomy for gastric cancer, after many ill-fated attempts. en.wikipedia.org

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Technology TIME TO KILL

FAR CRY GOES RETRO

AAKASH SHIPMENT OVER

This download-only game in which you combat dragons is a departure from the otherwise gritty series

GLENN CHAPMAN feedback@postnoon.com SAN FRANCISCO: Ubisoft unleashed a wacky take on action title Far Cry, illustrating how the low production costs of mobile-ready spinoffs allow videogame giants to show off their playful side.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon pits a cyber-commando against laser-shooting dragons in a sassy tribute to videogames from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The release of Blood Dragon comes as Ubisoft adapts to the booming popularity of downloading games for play on consoles, smartphones, tablets, or personal computers.

It will be joined in coming months by new titles including a Prince of Persia for play on Apple mobile gadgets and an online gladiator game in which players buy virtual slaves and turn them into arena fighters.

“These kinds of games give us more opportunity to take risks,” Ubisoft vice president of sales Tony Key said while providing early looks at coming titles during a Digital Days event at the company’s San Francisco studio.

Gamers moving online: survey WASHINGTON: More than seven in 10 Americans who play videogames are now doing so online, a survey showed yesterday.

The NPD Group study showed the figure of 72 percent of online gamers was up five percentage points from a year earlier.

Along with the rise in online gaming, there was also an increase in the number of hours spent playing. The rise was nine per cent overall and six per cent for online games.

“Besides the size of the gaming audience and sales performance, one of the key metrics for the industry to watch is the time gamers spend playing games,” said Liam Callahan, an NPD industry analyst.

Blood Dragon, available as a download to consoles or computers for $15, lets players “get the girl, kill the bad guys and save the world in a VHS-era vision of the future,” according to the Francebased videogame titan.

Dean Evans and his team at Ubisoft’s studio in Montreal kept the script, graphics, and storylines simple while weaving pulse-

“This study found that the overall amount of time spent gaming, and time spent gaming online increased across virtually every type of device, and notably so, versus 2012.”

The PC ranked as the top platform for online gaming, with 68 per cent using that device. But PC gaming use was down four per cent and online gaming on mobile devices grew by 12 percentage points since last year.

“While many gamers prefer games in the physical format, the increased availability of digital content paired with a greater amount of connected devices has driven an increase in the number of consumers going online to access the content they want,” said Callahan.

pushing action and music into the intentionally retro title. “We went a little bit renegade,” Evans said.

“We decided to approach it as this mini-franchise that has gone absolutely mental...

There is lots of cyborg murder rage.”

Players take on the role of Sergeant Rex Colt, who is billed as “part man, part machine, all American” and

out to defeat a former commanding officer turned villain with an army of killer cyborgs.

Controls in the game mirror those in its hit predecessor, Far Cry 3, in which a carefree island vacation by young hipsters turns into a nightmare.

In the opening moments of Far Cry 3 players go from swimming, dancing, skydiving and cavorting with friends to escaping the clutches of vicious and arguably psychotic pirates.

In contrast, the Blood Dragon script was pumped out quickly and game artists were given a B-movie budget for character gear, resulting in helmets resembling colanders and armor that looks like hockey pads.

“We wrote it with a lot of heart,” Evans said of the game script. “It’s difficult writing things that are so bad they are good.” The new title is set in a cartoonish future in which dragons fire laser beams from their eyes.

“We are not taking ourselves too seriously; we are just trying to have as much fun as possible,” Evans said.

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Datawind, the maker of low-cost Aakash tablets, today said it has shipped to the government all the 1 lakh units completing the deal after almost two-and-a-half years that was marred by glitches. Datawind had won the contract to supply 1 lakh unit of Aakash tablets priced at $49.98 a piece in 2011, translated into a price of `2,276 at that time. The company has already supplied 74,700 units of Aakash 2, upgraded version of tablet unveiled in October 2011, which have been delivered to and accepted by C-DAC, Noida and IIT-Bombay and 25,300 units are to be processed through Transporter in Noida.

CYBERATTACKED An “underground” website famed for selling drugs and other illegal items has been targeted in a cyberattack. It appears the site suffered from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack over Tuesday and Wednesday. Silk Road is only accessible through Tor, a service which allows users to browse anonymously. Several US politicians have called for the marketplace to be shut down, without success. DDoS attacks involve flooding a website with more traffic than it can handle, therefore knocking it offline.

Keep this app Google yesterday announced the launch of a new offline Chrome app version of its Keep note-taking service. If you have Google Chrome installed, you can download the new app now directly from the Chrome Web Store. The Google Keep Chrome app works without an Internet connection.

It lets you create notes, cross out your to-do lists, and attach photos to tasks even when you’re offline, and then syncs everything up when you get back online. Notice that the app is separate from Google Chrome.

This is not an extension: it’s a completely standalone app that works even when you close your browser.

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Entertainment THE FINAL TEST REMAINS

YVS CHOWDHARY

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VS Chowdhary is a relieved man these days. After nearly two years since he started the film, the principal shooting of Rey has been completed. Sai Dharam Tej is making his debut as a hero and the film also stars Saiyami Kher and Shraddha Das in lead roles. Talking about the film, YVS Chowdhary said, “We don’t have films which can impress both class and mass audience.

There was a time when people love to watch films like Prema Desam, Devdas and Desamudhuru. Although they were love stories, they have a lot of commercial potential.

My latest film Rey is a love story which has been made on a huge canvas. The first half is set in Caribbean and the second half unfolds in USA. The entire cast and crew have worked really hard on the film and the dance choreography is outstanding. I’m confident that the film will do a business of more than `30 crore.” The film’s post production has just begun

and it might hit the screens in couple of months. It has been 11 years since YVS Chowdhary began his home production Bommarillu banner. Ask him about what inspired him to get into films, he says, “I am a big fan of NTR and he inspired me to get into films. I must also thank Nagarjuna for producing my first film.” After Rey, YVS Chowdhary is going to produce four new films — Krishna Mukunda Murari, Yevari Maata Vinadu, CM (Common Man) and Thanks Baby. “Krishna Mukunda Murari is a sequel to Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo and Yevari Maata Vinadu is a sequel to Seethayya,” YVS Chowdhary said revealing more details about the films.

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andita, who was last seen in Teja’s Neeku Naaku, has reportedly bagged the lead role in an upcoming Malayalam film titled London Bridge.

Prithviraj is playing the lead role. Nandita will soon be seen in Sudheer Babu’s next film Premakatha Chitram.

Sreenu Vaitla denies rumours about Aagadu

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reenu Vaitla has stated that the heroine for his upcoming film Aagadu hasn’t been finalised yet and requested gossip mongers to stop speculating.

Mahesh Babu is playing the lead role in this film and it’ll go on the floors later this year.

Intinta Annamayya to release on May 31

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Raghavendra Rao’s upcoming film Intinta Annamayya is going to hit the screens on May 31. Yalamanchali Saibabu is producing the film and his son Revanth is playing the lead role in it. Sanam Shetty and Ananya are the lead actresses. MM Keeravani has scored the music.

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fashion

WESTWOOD DESIGNS VIRGIN ATLANTIC UNIFORMS

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD has redesigned Virgin Atlantic's famed red uniforms. Over 7,500 members of staff, including cabin crew, pilots, Clubhouse staff and Virgin Holidays employees, will wear the new ensembles which will be worn for the first time from July 2013, before the official launch in 2014.

COLOURS to flatter you

Bright colours have always been considered feminine, but not anymore. Men are defying the cliché and getting more daring and adventurous. Here’s a guide for men to sport colours with elan.

JOHN GALLIANO WON’T ATTEND THE MET BALL

JOHN GALLIANO won't attend this year's Met Ball. The designer will skip the annual Costume Institute Gala, despite several of his designs being featured in the accompanying Punk: Chaos To Couture exhibition.

POOJA SHAH feedback@postnoon.com

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hy should women have all the fun with colours? If you’re a man who would love to introduce a splash of colour to your wardrobe but are scared that you may end up looking like a parakeet, here’s a guide on how to sport colours with elan.

Here are several tips men need to know about wearing colour.

nWEAR COLOUR IN SUMMER:

Summer is such a festive time of year. Light and bright colours are de rigeur. So I advise you to choose a colour that is your signature colour for the season and one that enhances your natural skin and hair tone.

nBLUE IS ALWAYS A GOOD CHOICE: French blue, which is a rich medium blue, is a flattering for most skin tones.

nSTAY AWAY FROM LOUD PATTERNS: They are distracting and ultimately not a good thing. If it was ever in, it was in the eighties, but we've thankfully moved on.

nLOOK AROUND YOU:

If you are baffled about how to incorporate more colour into your wardrobe, take a look around you.

Look at ads and store displays. If you are traveling abroad, see how the locals use colour.

Make a style statement and stand out in a crowd with: Ties: If you are afraid of colour (as most men are) start by introducing it through accessories. Inject some colour into neutral outfits and make them pop by adding a bright tie.

Bright Shirts: Love that bright red shirt but won’t wear it because being compared to a tomato is not what you want?

Well, you don’t have to bury it in the back of your closet anymore. Bright blues, Crisp Yellows, Emerald greens, Fruity Purples…you can definitely wear them all. The key to looking good in colours is keeping in mind “Less is More”. In case of a shirt that is of a flamboyant colour remember to keep everything else on your person minimal. That includes your pants, belt, socks and shoes.

T-shirts and jackets: If you are afraid of sticking out too much in a bold coloured shirt or sweater, then layer your look. For example, add a grey cardigan to a bright

T-shirt and incase of a flamboyant jacket, sober it down with a neutral colour like white or pale blue.

Belts: Bright belts don’t need to spell fashion faux pas for you anymore. Keep in mind that when you have a belt that is in a nonconventional colour, it could be treated as an accessory. Team a green, red or orange belt with a sober shirt (white, cream) and standard Black trousers or Denims and you have yourself a winner!

Trousers and Denims: Electric blue, yellow, and salmon are great colours which may never go out of fashion, but just to be on the safer side try something a little darker and muted. Think: dark purple, tan, forest green, navy, and burgundy. These colours were all over the fall runways, and these tones help you exude confidence because of the sophistication and yet fun vibe that they give out. A man who knows how to wear colour well can really turn some heads. Men shouldn’t be afraid of colour but should embrace it. They should experiment even if it’s just with shirt colours. It is time to break free from your usual cycle of black and blue.

— The author is the creative head of More Mischief. Taj Deccan, is hosting creations of More Mischief currently.

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Chai Time

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

KAKURO

QUICK CROSSWORD

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

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

Within each collection of cells — called a run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly: In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. This means that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...

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

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

ACROSS

PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

SCRIBBLING PAD

1 British bombers of WWII 4 Babe and others 9 Wife of Abraham 14 Blow it 15 On the move 16 Exhaust, as a supply 17 Finder’s reward 18 Tools for makeup artists 20 Bored feeling 22 Cease 23 Pool players, sometimes 26 Put one’s foot down?

31 Medal winners 33 Like jambalaya and gumbo 34 ___ fly (RBI getter) 36 Dandruff origin 38 Occupied, as a seat 39 “The rest ___ to you” 41 Drummer Ringo 43 Dancer’s pride 44 Hunter’s weapon 46 Beatlemania reaction 48 Whisky type 49 Wipe off completely 51 Metropolitan area component 53 Agitate 55 Samson’s undoer 58 Like much fine wine 60 Necessitating nitpicking?

61 Loaf-making ingredients 67 Cone-bearing evergreen 68 Perform better than 69 Conference room need 70 Org. that’s a real medicine dropper 71 Interior designer’s concern 72 Silas Marner’s creator 73 Gender

DOWN

1 Direct (to) 2 Circus venue, sometimes 3 Features of some dress shirts 4 Weaponry for the three musketeers 5 Sci-fi vehicle 6 Wrecker’s job 7 Masons’ burdens 8 Manuscript marks 9 Backing 10 Sun Devils’ sch.

11 KO caller 12 “___ Deutsch, bitte” (“In German, please”) 13 Some inkjets 19 Univ. military group 21 It’s strummed in Maui 24 Mythical birds 25 Theater reservations 27 Airline amenity, once 28 Some tricky card ruses 29 Melancholy composition 30 Thickheaded 32 Cabbage side dishes 34 Brought into being 35 “___ care!” (“So what!”)

37 ___ as a peacock 40 Real estate map 42 The Statue of Liberty’s garb 45 Neighbor of Peru 47 Group with no members, in math 50 Work units 52 Brazil metropolis, familiarly 54 Midler or Davis 56 Stage whisper 57 Elephant’s tiny kin 59 Having a double purpose 61 Physique, informally 62 Have serious misgivings about 63 Abbr. after a comma 64 “Much ___ About Nothing” 65 Kind of agent 66 ___-Jo (1988 Olympics star)

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ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Financial position will improve steadily. You will solve the long pending issues with your innovative techniques and rich experience. Success is yours in whatever you undertake.

Marriage talks will be delayed but will materialise successfully.

STRIP TEASE AGNES

Son will get a promising job and daughter will be successful in her higher studies. You will learn from their success and go ahead in your life. Those involved in construction or purchase of a house will also achieve success.

Behaviour of close but bad friends might upset you. You will be more courageous and take the right decisions.

Tensions that existed will go away. You need to control anger and harsh talks that might hurt others.

People in powerful positions will become your friends.

Though expenses will be beyond expectations, good inflow of money will take care of the situation. You will undertake challenging assignments and complete them successfully.

Unwanted expenses must be controlled and planning is crucial. You will become more active and focus on work. Work that was held up for a long time will resume and progress well. Your stock is set to pile up.

Expenses will increase but good inflow of money will take care of the situation. Hurdles likely at the workplace. Blood relatives will extend their support and financial help.

Employees will be entrusted with more responsibilities.

Promotion plus a transfer is on the cards. You will become bold enough to take some important decisions that will yield expected results.

Confidence will go up. Some will sell their old property for a good price.

Daughter’s marriage might be finalised but be sure to verify the credentials of the boy before taking the big step. You need to maintain maximum patience now. Control your anger and emotional outbursts.

Planning is crucial.

Savings might erode. You will not be affected by bad events and will treat both good and bad events with a seasoned mind and absorb shocks without panicking. Though financial problems are likely, you will get help from all corners.

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ARIES:

GEMINI:

Judgment – You need to be reminded of your capacity to achieve. It could be running a company or running a house or managing your home on your salary.

LEO:

Seven of Swords – There’s nothing wrong in aiming for perfection. Except, it may make you feel a bit fatigued because you place too many expectations on yourself.

LIBRA:

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

The Sun – You must stay positive. Go into every problem believing that only the best can come out of it. Learn to enjoy. Go to movies, read books or anything else to relax.

SAGITTARIUS:

Ten of Swords – Stay away from junk food no matter what. Though it’s an easier option to take care of a meal, take trouble to eat healthier, fresher foods.

TAURUS:

The Tower – You may be feeling odd and not exactly in the frame of mind to deliver your best quality of work. Don’t push yourself. Be kind to yourself.

CANCER:

Death – Your experiences make you who you are – strong, stable, intelligent. Don’t allow bitter experiences to ruin the goodness. Think positive at all times.

VIRGO:

Ten of Wands – Those who are into cigarette smoking must quit soon. Health must be given priority over everything else.

Even mental health needs attention.

SCORPIO:

Eight of Swords – Get into yoga or any other form of calming exercise that works on both body and mind. You must harmonise all your relationships, too.

CAPRICORN:

The Empress – Stay focused about an issue and you will resolve it faster. It could be a fitness regimen or a more complicated work-related problem.

PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS

PISCES:

Two of Wands – A new relationship is making you swoon. Remember this feeling is short-lived though the relationship may not be.

NUMBER GAME

Pentacles – You’re a strong and independent person with a calm exterior.

Only, you should know where to use some force and where to step back.

SCRABBLE

AQUARIUS: Three of

POOCH CAFE

Benefits are likely. Work will finish but with a delay which might irk you. However, some important work will be done successfully and help you relax.

Control your anger and avoid unnecessary expenses. Health needs attention too.

for 4-5-2013

The Moon – You may be feeling a little low and depressed. Do things that make you feel good. Pamper yourself today and think of all your nice qualities.

NON SEQUITUR

Court verdict will go in your favour. You will give more importance to good character.

Unexpected financial fortune is likely. Work that was delayed for long will now finish successfully. Peaceful atmosphere is likely at home.

SUDUKO

Unexpected journey, sleeplessness and unexpected expenses are likely. Be alert and take good care. Financial inflow is very good. Those trying for a new job will get favourable results. Wherever you go, you will be welcomed.

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PAYING HOMAGE

CINE BYTES

A RARE PORTRAIT

OF A LEGEND

HEMANTH KUMAR hemanth.k@postnoon.com

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ndian cinema owes a lot to PK Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), after all he dedicated his entire life to restoration and preservation of films. In a country where the concept of preservation is yet to evolve, the monumental task which PK Nair had undertaken is in itself awe-inspiring. That’s precisely what inspired director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur to make a documentary titled Celluloid Man, which explores the life and work of PK Nair. “Leave aside films, there’s no concept of preservation of arts, culture and heritage in India. Unless we start caring and seriously do something to preserve our heritage, there’ll be nothing left to show to future generations.

Sometimes, we have to look back in order to move ahead,” Shivendra Singh Dungarpur contends.

In the early 90s, Shivendra Singh enrolled at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) to study scriptwriting

PK Nair

and director. It was there that he first came across PK Nair.

“During his tenure as the director of National Film Archive of India, PK Nair collected nearly 12,000 films and it’s only due to his efforts that we still have 1012 silent films out of the 1,700 silent films made before independence. It’s sad that we had already lost almost 80 per cent of the films by the time NFAI began in 1964. Since filmmakers never bothered to preserve

their films, the cans were sold to extract silver from black and white films, whereas the colour from colour films was in turn used to make bangles,” he reveals.

Incidentally, when he began toying with the idea of making a documentary, NFAI didn’t let PK Nair to enter the premises.

We ask him what had happened between NFAI and PK Nair and he says, “After PK Nair retired in 1991, the newly

appointed officials felt that he was interfering a lot. PK Nair dedicated his whole life building the archive but when I finally got access to the vault I was shocked to see film cans lying abandoned and they were kept in a wrong temperature,” he recollects.

Having spent nearly three years to make the documentary, the journey has been more of a self discovery for him. One such incident occurred in Heggodu, a village in Karnataka. A long time ago, PK Nair had screened films like Pather Panchali and Rashomon to the local areca nut farmers.

When he went to meet the farmers, the latter spoke about how the films had an impact on them. “Another time, we discovered a Ford which belonged to Phalke himself. That was quite a revelation,” he says. So what aspect of PK Nair impressed him the most? “His memory is still intact and even at this age he wants to keep preserving films,” he says. He’s now planning to start his own foundation to preserve films.

That would be a fitting tribute to PK Nair and his legacy.

John excited about Shootout At Wadala

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ctor John Abraham, who plays gangster Manya Surve in Shootout At Wadala, hopes his hard work in the movie pays off.

But the real star was the aviator sunglasses he sported at a publicity event. "I have worked so so hard on the film — am anxious and excited. Hope you guys enjoy this film as much as I have enjoyed doing it," John posted on Twitter.

IANS

Do charity for any reason, but do it

D

o charity and do it directly, suggests actor Salman Khan, who contributes to various social activities through his charitable organisation Being Human. Salman was present at the launch of new campaign The Little Hearts, which aims at curing 500 children suffering from heart ailments.

IANS

Pooja Bhatt looking for a lead lady for her next film

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ctor-director Pooja Bhatt is on a hunt for the leading lady of her next film Cabaret. She wants someone with a natural flair for dancing. "I am looking for the 'next big thing' — someone who is not only drop-dead gorgeous and a great dancer, but can also essay a nuanced role with aplomb," Pooja said. She is said to be on the lookout for a "feisty, sensual yet feminine girl" for the movie, which is slated to go on the floors later this year.

IANS

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

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NBA

Nets stay alive with win over ailing Bulls

The Nets kept their playoff hopes alive with a 95-92 win.

CHICAGO: The Brooklyn Nets kept their NBA playoff hopes alive Thursday with a 95-92 victory over the short-handed Chicago Bulls that forced a deciding game seven in their Eastern Conference first-round series.

Deron Williams scored 17 points and handed out 11 assists for the Nets. Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson chipped in another 17 points each and Gerald Wallace added 15 for Brooklyn, who will host the series decider on Saturday.

The winner of the series will face reigning NBA champions Miami in the second round. The Heat, led by LeBron James, swept Milwaukee out of the playoffs in four games.

By again staving off elimination, the Nets gave themselves a chance to become just the ninth NBA team to come back from a 31 deficit to win a best-of-seven series.

“We found a way to win,” said Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo.

“I’ve lost track of days. Is today Saturday? Thursday? We were

here last Saturday and weren’t looking real good.

“We haven’t turned the corner, but we’re looking a lot better than we looked when we left here last Saturday.”

The Nets shot just 28 percent from the field in the second half, but they held on against a Bulls team playing without starting point guard Kirk Hinrich for the second straight game because of a calf injury.

Chicago were also without Britain’s Luol Deng, who was sidelined by the flu.

AFP

Joakim Noah #13 of the Chicago Bulls grabs Andray Blatche #0 of the Brooklyn Nets as Nate Robinson #2 hits the floor on Thursday. AFP/JONATHAN DANIEL

BRIEFS

WORLD BOXING COUNCIL

Floyd Mayweather risks title LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather returns to the ring after a year’s absence that included a jail stint on Saturday, risking his World Boxing Council welterweight title against southpaw Robert Guerrero.

Mayweather, 43-0 with 26 knockouts, went to jail last June for domestic violence and since his release eight months ago has been working to regain the fitness needed to defend his place atop the list of boxing’s moneymakers.

“I feel unbeatable,” Mayweather said. “I’m in tip top condition. I’m in great shape. I have been working hard.

“I just call it a vacation.

Sometimes the body needs time to heal. The body needs time to rejuvenate. The body needs

time to rest.”

But fellow American Guerrero, 31-1 with 18 knockouts and a 15-fight win streak dating to 2005, sees himself as having been given this opportunity in order to humble

Mayweather by inflicting the first loss of his career.

“Not just humble Floyd but humble the boxing world,” Guerrero says of his mission.

“Some poeple think Floyd is a god with the way he lives, the

way he spends money. Some people think he is unbeatable.

“That 0 has to go. He’s going to have his first loss.”

And Guerrero thinks the layoff will have more of an impact on Mayweather that he will admit.

“Having that year off, you have that ring rust,” Guerrero said. “It’s going to take a little time to shake that ring rust off.

Being a whole year’s layoff, he’s going to feel the punches more.” Mayweather plans on making “The Ghost” feel a few blows as well.

“Everybody always says what they’re going to do to me,” Mayweather said. “He is a solid opponent. He talks a good game. Now we have to see if he can fight as well as he talks.

He’s more like a grappler, a wrestler, than a boxer.”

AFP

BOXING

Klitschko faces cancer-survivor Pianeta

BERLIN: World heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko takes on undefeated challenger Francesco Pianeta on Saturday in a busy summer for the Ukrainian champ with a bumper pay-day against Russia’s Alexander Povetkin looming on the horizon.

Klitschko will defend his WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts in Mannheim, south-west Germa-

ny, against German-Italian Pianeta who survived testicular cancer three years ago and has a record of 28 wins and one draw.

Pianeta beat 48-year-old former world champion Oliver McCall on points last year, then laboured to another points win over South Africa’s Francois Botha, 44, but is eager to face the reigning champion.

“I will bust my backside to

get those belts. I am sure that everyone is beatable,” said the 28-year-old, who has a tattoo bearing Julius Caesar’s boast — “veni, vidi, vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered). Unlike Klitschko’s recent victims, Poland’s Mariusz Wach, Frenchman Jean-Marc Mormeck and Britain’s David Haye, Pianeta has already faced Klitschko, having been a former sparring partner.

“He knows what he’s getting himself into and that’s why he’s confident that he can win this fight,” said Klitschko’s trainer Johnathon Banks. That’s what’s going to make this fight a good one.” With 143 sparring rounds under his belt in training, Klitschko is looking for the 60th win of his career with 50 knockouts and he has no plans to add to his three defeats.

AFP

Khan takes final honours HYDERABAD: S Khan of Hyderabad won the 1st Raja Bahadur Venkatarama Reddy Memorial Fide Rating Chess tournament title with a thumping win over Hinduja Reddy in the final round held at RBVR Reddy Women College, Narayanaguda.

Selected Results (Final): Grahesh Y (8½) drew with B.Anand Naik (8½ ), Hinduja Reddy (7½) lost to S.Khan (9), Dhiraj Patil (8) bt Chakravarthy S.V.C (7), G Harshavardhan Reddy (7) drew with Potlu Sai Srija (7½), E Arjun 6½ lost to Sai Agni Jeevitesh 7½

New Zealand duo get early IPL release LONDON: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum and key batsman Ross Taylor are set for an earlier than anticipated arrival in England after being granted early release by their Indian Premier League sides.

The pair were not expected to arrive on the tour of England until after the completion of this weekend’s inaugural threeday warm-up match against Derbyshire. But McCullum and Taylor will now have more time to get used to English conditions before the two-match Test series gets underway at Lord’s later this month. AFP

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LPGA TOUR’S KINGSMILL CHAMPIONSHIP

Thai teen Ariya at the top Thai teenager Ariya Jutanugarn fired a seven-under par 64 to seize a two-stroke lead after the first round of the LPGA Tour’s Kingsmill Championship.

WILLIAMSBURG: Thai teenager Ariya Jutanugarn fired a seven-under par 64 on Thursday to seize a two-stroke lead after the first round of the LPGA Tour’s Kingsmill Championship.

“Today, I played very good, so my putting helped me a lot,” said Ariya, whose nine birdies more than countered the only blemish on her card, a doublebogey five at the par-three 17th.

“I made a lot of putts, but today I still missed on my driver and long irons.”

The 17-year-old, who is playing on a sponsor’s exemption, had a two-shot lead over US veteran Cristie Kerr.

It was a further stroke back to South Korea’s Ryu So-Yeon and Dewi Claire Schreefel of the Netherlands on 67.

World number one Park InBee and number two Stacy

Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand hits her second shot on the 18th hole during the first round of the Kingsmill Championship at Kingsmill Resort on Thursday in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Lewis were among a group of 14 players sharing fourth place on three-under 68.

Ariya, of Bangkok, captured

MUNICH ATP

Top-seed Tipsarevic eases into quarters MUNICH, GERMANY: Top-seed Janko Tipsarevic opened his campaign at the Munich ATP claycourt tournament on Thursday by easing into the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Slovenia’s Grega Zemlja as four Germans reached the last eight. The Serbian, ranked 10th in the world, is aiming to clinch his second title of the year, having started the season with a win in Chennai.

Tipsarevic, who captured his first clay title in Stuttgart in 2012, will now play Germany’s Daniel Brands, who beat French wildcard Gael Monfils 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, for a place in Saturday’s semi-finals. Veteran Tommy Haas takes on compatriot Florian Mayer in the only all-German quarter-final after the 35-year-old beat Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis 6-4, 6-7 (3/7), 6-1 on his 10th appearance in Munich.

“It was a tough match, but I knew it would be beforehand,” said Haas as rain-affected Thursday’s play.

AFP

her first professional title in March, when she claimed a three-shot win at the Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco on the

MADRID: Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer appear at the same claycourt event for the first time this season with the Madrid Masters a key test just three weeks out from the French Open.

The tournament returns to traditional red clay after a controversial experiment with blue clay in 2012.

The surface drew strong criticism from Nadal and Djokovic who threatened not to return to play in the Spanish capital if it wasn’t changed.

However, ATP president Brad Drewett outlawed the use of blue clay and so Nadal and world number one Djokovic will return for another potentially fascinating clash.

Djokovic ended Nadal’s eight-year reign as champion in Monte Carlo in the last Masters event with such a devastating display that the Serb is now hotly tipped to become just the eighth man to complete the career Grand Slam and claim his first French Open title at Roland Garros.

AFP

WELLS FARGO CHAMPIONSHIP

Rory among seven sharing lead

Rory McIlroy and Angel Cabrera wait to hit on the 11th tee during the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship a on Thursday.

AFP/STREETER LECKA

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA: World number two Rory McIlroy was one of seven players sharing the lead on five-under 67 on Thursday after the first round of the US PGA Tour’s Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow. The weather-damaged greens that raised concerns ahead of the tournament didn’t prevent more than 50 players from breaking par as cool, overcast weather made for good scoring conditions despite some patchy putting surfaces.

“They’re not the best greens that we’ve ever putted on, but they’re certainly not the worst, either,” said Northern Ireland’s McIlroy, who claimed his breakthrough victory on the US PGA Tour at this event in 2010 and finished runner-up to Rickie Fowler in a playoff last year.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Judd Trump pulls level

SHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM: Ronnie O’Sullivan squandered an early lead in his World Championship semis against Judd Trump (right) as the defending champion was pegged back to 4-4 after Thursday’s first session.

O’Sullivan raced into a 4-1 lead at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre, but the four-time champion didn’t press home his

Ladies European Tour. She was fast out of the gate on Thursday, with birdies at the first, second and third holes. She reeled off three more birdies from the fifth to make the turn at six-under.

The player was eight-under through 14 before finding trouble at 17, where she missed the green and needed two chips to get on the putting surfaces.

She bounced back with a birdie at 18. “On 17, I just missed to the left and just had a bad third shot and second shot,” said Ariya, who has finished in the top five in all three LPGA events she has competed in this season. It did not make me not confident because I knew 18 is not a long par-four, so I could make a birdie on that hole.”

Kerr’s round included six birdies and just one bogey. She finished in style, with birdie at 17 and 18.

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MADRID MASTERS All-star cast back on red clay

advantage and Trump hit back to set the stage for an absorbing contest when the match resumes on Friday.

O’Sullivan has claimed this week that he will retire from snooker in the near future and is only appearing at the world championships to pay for his children’s school fees.

It is not the first time the 37-

year-old English star has made such claims, but if he does finally walk away from the sport, the entertaining Trump is regarded as the natural heir to O’Sullivan.

O’Sullivan fired in breaks of 65, 75 and 89 on his way to the three-frame cushion, and looked a strong favourite to secure the 17 frames required for a place in the final.

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“The ball still rolls pretty well on them,” he said. McIlroy powered up the leaderboard with four birdies in a row starting at the par-five fifth. He sandwiched birdies at 10 and 11 between bogeys at the ninth and 12th, but joined the group sharing the clubhouse lead with a birdie at 18.

McIlroy was joined on 67 by Ryan Moore, Robert Garrigus, Nick Watney, Nate Smith, Derek Ernst and Daniel Summerhays. Smith qualified on Monday to make his return to a PGA Tour event for the first time since 2011, when he played in 16 events.

In five starts on the Web.com tour this year his best finish is a tie for 29th, but he briefly gained sole possession of the lead with a birdie at 16 — jumping ahead of six players in the clubhouse on 67.

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IPL 6

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BATTLE OF THE TITANS

METRE

6 S 397

Playing Kolkata in Kolkata is a big challenge always. They are a good side, an experienced side. We don’t want to take them lightly.

Ajinkya Rahane RR player

Chris Gayle (RCB) 505 runs

Dwayne Bravo (CSK) 19 wickets

Positive atmosphere helps: Raina

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fter scoring his first IPL century, Suresh Raina credited a perfect atmosphere in the dressing room for his brilliant run in the League.

Raina, who is the highest run-getter in IPL history so far, cracked 100 off 53 balls against Kings XI Punjab.

“To be honest I missed century in last season and previously in South Africa. When the team needs you and you perform, it is very good feeling. I am really happy to have achieved it,” Raina said.

Asked how he has maintained his superb form in IPL, the diminutive left-hander said a healthy dressing room where seniors are of great help, was key to his show.

PTI P

W

L

T PT

CSK

11

9

2

0

18 +0.737

RCB

11

7

4

0

14 +0.708

RR

9

6

3

0

12 +0.577

MI

10

6

4

0

12 +0.134

SRH

10

6

4

0

12 -0.102

KXIP 10

4

6

0

8 +0.080

KKR

10

3

7

0

6 -0.104

DD

10

3

7

0

6 -0.599

PWI

11

2

9

0

4 -1.382

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

NR

Chris Gayle (RCB)

37 4S 1260

Michael Hussey (CRK)

55

HIGHEST SCORE

175*

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013 Chris Gayle (RCB)

BEST BOWLER

5-20

James Faulkner (RR)

KKR in do or die clash

KKR have failed to impress anyone this season.

Meanwhile, the Rajasthan Royals are comfortably placed at the third spot on the points table.

The Rahul Dravid-led side have won six of their nine matches and the manner in which they have performed this year, it seems unlikely that they would lose today’s match.

James Faulkner has been the best find for the Royals and after his five-wicket haul recently, he is also in the competition for the purple cap.

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efending champions Kolkata Knight Riders take on Rajasthan Royals in their IPL clash which is scheduled to be played at Kolkata tonight.

The Knights have been struggling to find their form and are placed at a lowly seventh position on the points table.

A defeat today could seal the fate of the Knight Riders and eliminate their chances of making it to the playoffs.

Kolkata Knight Riders have an enviable side on paper but the players have failed to rise to the occasion and have lost matches which could have otherwise swung in their favour.

Even with the likes of skipper Gautam Gambhir, Jacques Kallis, Yusuf Pathan and Brett Lee and Brendon McCullum,

KKR VS RCB AT 8PM ON SET MAX Other players, including Dravid, Stuart Binny, Shane Watson and Ajit Chandila have contributed well.

Rajasthan Royals have played the least number of matches in comparison to the other teams this season. Hence if they continue playing in a similar manner then they could be one of the teams which make it to the top four positions and into the playoffs.

SCORECARD CSK V KXIP

DE VILLIERS HOOK

PW V RCB

Chennai Super Kings innings (20 overs maximum) WP Saha c Marsh b Awana 18 MEK Hussey st †G Singh b Chawla 35 SK Raina not out 100 MS Dhoni*† run out (Sathish/†G Singh) 2 JA Morkel c Miller b Awana 23 RA Jadeja not out 5 Extras (lb 1, w 2) 3 Total (4 wickets; 20 overs) 186 Bowling O M R W Econ P Kumar 4 0 38 0 9.50 DJ Hussey 4 0 31 0 7.75 P Awana 4 0 29 2 7.25 PP Chawla 4 0 32 1 8.00 MS Gony 2 0 29 0 14.50 R Sathish 2 0 26 0 13.00 Kings XI Punjab innings (target: 187 runs from 20 overs) LA Pomersbach b Sharma 7 Mandeep Singh c Raina b Sharma 15 SE Marsh b Bravo 73 DJ Hussey*c Bravo b Ashwin 22 DA Miller not out 51 Gurkeerat Singh† c Hussey b Bravo 0 R Sathish lbw b Bravo 0 MS Gony not out 0 Extras (lb 3) 3 Total (6 wickets; 20 overs) 171 Bowling O M R W Econ JA Morkel 4 0 20 0 5.00 MM Sharma 4 0 31 2 7.75 R Ashwin 4 0 33 1 8.25 CH Morris 3 0 31 0 10.33 SK Raina 1 0 19 0 19.00 DJ Bravo 4 0 34 3 8.50

Royal Challengers Bangalore innings (20 overs maximum) SS Tiwary c Sharma b Dinda 52 CH Gayle c Kumar b Suman 21 V Kohli* b Dinda 25 AB de Villiers not out 50 MC Henriques not out 27 Extras (lb 1, w 11) 12 Total (3 wickets; 20 overs) 187 Bowling O M R W Econ B Kumar 3 0 20 0 6.66 BAW Mendis 4 0 25 0 6.25 TL Suman 2 0 15 1 7.50 AD Mathews 2 0 23 0 11.50 R Sharma 4 0 36 0 9.00 Yuvraj Singh 1 0 15 0 15.00 AB Dinda 4 0 52 2 13.00 Pune Warriors innings (target: 188 runs from 20 overs) RV Uthappa† c Singh b Kartik 75 AJ Finch* b Henriques 15 TL Suman run out (Muralitharan/†Arun Karthik) 11 Y Singh c de Villiers b V Kumar 16 SPD Smith c †Arun Karthik b Vinay Kumar 4 AD Mathews c Gayle b V Kumar 32 AM Nayar c de Villiers b Kartik 1 B Kumar c Kohli b Singh 2 BAW Mendis lbw b Gayle 2 AB Dinda not out 6 R Sharma not out 0 Extras (lb 2, w 4) 6 Total (9 wickets; 20 overs) 170 Bowling O M R W Econ M Kartik 4 0 29 2 7.25 RP Singh 4 0 27 1 6.75 MC Henriques 4 0 44 1 11.00 R Vinay Kumar 4 0 31 3 7.75 M Muralitharan 3 0 32 0 10.66 CH Gayle 1 0 5 1 5.00

Chennai Super Kings won by 15 runs

RCB won by 17 runs

Royal Challengers Banglore’S AB de Villiers plays a shot during their IPL6 match against Pune Warriors in Pune on Thursday .

PTI/SHASHANK PARADE

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

sports EUROPA LEAGUE

Chelsea’s Fernando Torres (L) vies for the ball with FC Basel’s Markus Steinhoefer (R) during their Europa League semifinal second leg football match at Stamford Bridge in London on Thursday. Chelsea won the match 3-1.

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Chelsea beat Basel to reach tourney final

Chelsea reached the Europa League final for the first time in their history after surviving a first-half scare.

TOM WILLIAMS Agence France-Presse LONDON: Chelsea reached the Europa League final for the first time in their history after surviving a first-half scare to defeat Swiss champions FC Basel 3-1 in the second leg of their semi-final on Thursday.

Leading 2-1 from last week’s first leg in Switzerland, Chelsea risked elimination after Mohamed Salah’s welltaken goal in first-half injury time put the visitors 1-0 up on the night.

But goals from Fernando Torres and Victor Moses and a David Luiz stunner early in the second half gave last season’s Champions League winners a 5-2 aggregate victory that sets up a meeting with Benfica in the final in Amsterdam on May 15.

It was a case of third time lucky for Chelsea, who lost in the semi-finals in both the League Cup and the FA Cup this season, while Basel fell short in their attempt to become the first Swiss team to reach a major European final.

Chelsea interim manag-

er Rafael Benitez will now look to end a testing season by claiming the second Europa League title of his career after his 2004 success with Valencia, although his immediate priority is to secure a return to the Champions League via the league.

“I came to do a professional job with the commitment of the players. I am pleased for them and everyone here,” said Benitez, who has struggled to win over the club0s fans since arriving in November.

“We have had a very good atmosphere, the players have always worked hard, and they have always done their job.”

Basel captain Marco Streller passed a late fitness to start at Stamford Bridge and he almost made an immediate impression, shooting wide from a good position in the first minute.

Chelsea’s fans had just taken to serenading former coach Jose Mourinho, who has been linked with a return to the club this week, when the hosts’ first chance arrived in the ninth minute.

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WALCOTT SAYS DEFENCE KEY TO CL BID

London’s leading clubs will continue their battle for Champions League places this weekend, with Arsenal striker Theo Walcott saying defence holds the key to qualifying for European club football’s leading tournament.

PSG on brink of title glory

PARIS: There are still four games of the Ligue 1 season remaining but Paris SaintGermain could wrap up their first title since 1994 if results go their way this weekend. After starting the campaign as overwhelming title

favourites, the capital club have been permanent fixtures in top spot since late January and came into May nine points clear of second-placed Marseille at the summit. It is therefore only a matter of time before they beco-

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me the sixth different name on the trophy in the last six seasons. If Marseille fail to beat Bastia at the Stade Velodrome, then Paris will be in a position to be crowned champions by bettering OM’s result.

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