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CRUISING ON MARS Nasa’s Curiosity rover has completed a year on Mars, giving us ‘exclusive sneak peeks’ and improving our understanding of the Red Planet. Postnoon looks at the groundbreaking discoveries made by the rover.

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HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

CURIOUS ROLE REVERSAL IN AGITATION

TELANGANA’S

POWER

PROBLEM

The incendiary statement of TRS President KCR that all Seemandhra employees must leave Hyderabad has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Now, T employees unions and TJAC are in damage-control mode.

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A NEW BEGINNING St Francis College held the investiture ceremony of the COFEE club, whose members play a pivotal role in organising various cultural fests.

Telangana is likely to face around 2,000MW power shortage, after the division. There are 19 major power plants in Andhra Pradesh generating 16,350MW and Telangana gets only 58.50MW.

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city events

WORLD OF COLOURS

Workshop on drawing and water colour, oil and acrylic painting for housewives. Where: Inspire Painting Institute When: Ongoing; Contact: 8977772524

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES Muller, Cord Meier-Klodt & Lalit Verma. Where: State Gallery of Art,Kavuri Hills,Madhapur. When: Till August 14 Contact: Goethe Zentrum on Facebook

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DINING Flavours to savour Unique flavours of Pondicherry. Where: Dakshin, ITC Kakatiya, Begumpet When: August 30 Contact: 789301 3000 GRADUATES ALL: Gurunanak Institute of Technology celebrated its ninth graduation day ceremony on Sunday. More than 320 students are placed out of 450 graduating students.

Ramzan special Relish the season special iftar delicacies. Where: Viva, Taj Vivanta When: Till Aug 7, 5.30-11.30 pm Where: Deccan Pavilion, ITC Kakatiya When: Till Aug 7, 7.30pm

Where: Hard Rock Cafe, Banjara Hills When: August 8, 2013 Contact: 88864 80007

Where: Novotel Airport, Shamshabad When: Ongoing, 6.30pm Contact: (040) 6625 0000

Play pursuits Bade Bhai Sahab, a play by The Recycle Bin will be staged. Where: DST Auditorium, Gachibowli When: August 6, 8.30 pm Contact: 2313-3216

Tea flavours Try the tea flavours of Budlabeta, Hapjan and Khobong Sessa. A portion of the proceeds will be contributed to WWF India's one-horned Rhino Conservation project in Assam. Where: Oxford Bookstore, The Park, 22 Rajbhavan Road When: Ongoing Contact: 8790432354 Parantha festival Haldi at Novotel Airport is hosting a parantha festival titled Parantha Overload. The parantha festival on till August 15, offers a variety of paranthas in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian combinations.

Live performance One Nite Stand - Tribute to Coldplay will be performing live.

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An age of innocence An exhibition by Jaya Javeri depicting playfulness, fantasy, nature and childhood memories will be held. Where: Ginger Lily, Radisson Blu Plaza

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Dance performance Perini Shiva Thandavam will be staged. Where: Chitramayee State Gallery of Fine Arts, Madhapur When: August 5, 6 pm Contact: Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, at 2335-0443 Photo exhibition Jal Anand: Shahi Snan, Maha Kumbha Mela 2013 by Jean Pierre

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Outdoor photography An outdoor photography workshop for adults and teens will be held by Indira Penubolu. Where: Our Sacred Space, Secunderabad When: August 10, 11, 3.30 pm to 6 pm Contact: 9030013344, 9246844650, 9949076582 Lamze classes Lamze classes for expecting couples will be held. Where: The Birthplace, Banjara Hills When: August 7, 6 pm to 7 pm Contact: 98855-69459 Theatre festival The seventh edition of the multi-lingual theatre festival — Abhinaya National Theatre Festival will be held from August 16 to August 19. Where: Ravindra Bharathi, Saifabad When: August 16 onwards 6.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2323 1245

Airport Director 27903785, 27906001 For Air India Flight Information Toll free (from any network) for IC Flights 18001801407 And for All Flights: 1800227722 Air India has revised its flight timings. For more information call (Toll free) 18001801407, 1800227722 from BSNL/MTNL 04023430334 from other lines and mobile Website; www.airindia.in TOURISM OFFICES AP Tourism, Hyd 23262152/53/54 Sec-bad 27893100 Dept of Tourism 23453110 India Tourism 23261360 AP Tourism information Centre (24x7) 23450444, 23455999 UK VISA OFFICE VFS India Pvt Ltd Building, 8-2-542/A, Sunil Chamber, Road No. 7

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news CITY BRIEFS ‘City must be joint capital permanently’

Harikrishna, who resigned his Parliament seat in protest against bifurcation of the State, said Hyderabad was no one’s property and it should be the permanent capital of both the States. He regretted that the Congress party did all this to make Rahul Gandhi PM. Terming Congress as a vicious power, he said, the state had been victimised for political gains of the Gandhi family

Ambedkar open varsity notifies deadline

r BR Ambedkar Open University has notiﬁed that the last date for online admission for B.A/B.Com and B.Sc for 201314 is August 16. Candidates with Intermediate pass and who have passed the eligibility test conducted by the University between 2009 and 2012 can enrol. Those who passed National Open School and AP Open School society are also eligible. For more information can visit www.braouonline.in.

Elaborate security for Bonalu in Old City

laborate security arrangements are being made for the Bonalu procession to be held in the Old City on Monday. Talking to reporters after reviewing the arrangement, City police commissioner Anurag Sharma said that it was almost after 14 years that Bonalu and Ramzan festivals have coincided. However, he appreciated the people for celebrating both the festivals with complete peace and harmony.

Case against KCR for Andhra staff remark

case for promoting enmity was registered against Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao for his alleged remarks that state government employees from Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra working in Telangana should go back to their respective regions. "A case under sections 153A and 506 of Indian Penal Code has been ﬁled in Three Town police station in Rajamundhry.

Construction worker falls from building, dies

man fell down from the building and died at L B Nagar. According to police sources, Prakash, 24, resident of Begumpet and hails from Tamil Nadu, was working on the third ﬂoor of building, lost his control and fell down. He had sustained severe injuries and died late lat night. Police is investigating the incident.

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IS THE REBELLION AGAINST T-FORMATION JUSTIFIED? 40% 60%

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CRIME

SC RULING

Man found in gunny bag identified MOHD SUBHAN mohd.s@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: The novel effort of the police in Central Zone to identify a murdered body has proved fruitful. For the first time, the police sought the help of UDAI and went around announcing people to let them know anything about a middleaged man with features explained in a print-out of his old photograph. While UDAI could not help, the public appeal proved useful. The man’s family saw the photograph pasted on Nampally railway station premises. Central Zone DCP Kamalasan Reddy said the police had sought the help of Aadhar authorities and publicised the photograph of the middle-aged man whose body was found in a gunny bag in the garbage bin of Mozam zahi market On July 21. He has been identified as Ram Kumar of Panipat, Haryana. His family members had lodged a missing complaint but

Salem won’t get death penalty NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday allowed CBI to withdraw the prosecution of mafia don Abu Salem under the provisions of criminal law that attracts death penalty. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam also vacated the stay on the trial of the cases going on against Salem in several courts across the country. While disposing off the petition by Abu Salem, the court

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Ram Kumar was a cloth merchant and lived in Hafeezpet with his wife and three children. they had produced a photograph taken of Ram Kumar 15 years ago which the police used for their search. However, it was the worried family members who were going home in

CRIME

Two UP policemen rob jeweller, suspended LUCKNOW: Two sub-inspectors of Uttar Pradesh Police have been suspended for robbing a jeweller of his valuables last month on the FaizabadGorakhpur highway, an official said Monday. The robbery took place in Gonda, about 100 km from Lucknow, July 24 when a jeweller was riding his motorcycle to the market. The two sub-inspectors, under the pretext of checking the papers of his two-wheeler, robbed the jeweller at Parsurampur on the FaizabadGorakhpur highway. The two policemen were in uniform and at work when they robbed the jeweller. They sped away in a car after the loot. The jeweller, Lal Bau Soni, brought the matter to the notice

of senior police officials and gave them the number of the car in which the two subinspectors had fled.

The two cops, under the pretext of checking the papers of his two-wheeler, robbed the jeweller. AROUND THE

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The car was traced and the driver detained. The driver spilled the beans during interrogation, and stunned investigators when he revealed that two sub-inspectors were behind the crime. IANS

Haryana who found the posters and realised that their Ram Kumar who had been found murdered. Ram Kumar was a cloth merchant and lived in Hafeezpet with his wife and three children. According to his family, he had been missing since July 19 and his mobile phone seemed switched off. They lodged a complaint with the Madhapur police station. Reddy said the next challenge is to identify the killers.

ruled out his return to Portugal from where he was extradited to face trial for his alleged involvement in 1996 Mumbai serial bomb blast cases. Salem had moved the apex court challenging his trial under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) which mandatorily attracts death penalty. He had contended when he was extradited, the government had given an undertaking that he would not be tried under the provisions of criminal law that attracts death sentence.

News MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013 LAST YEAR... HERE Security firms in the City

ast year we had reported how police despite having the details of security agencies in the City are not aware of the personnel they appoint. Even companies who employ people from these security agencies often are lax about checking their background. Despite a special act for security agencies in place, the situation still remains the same.

AUGUST 5, 2012

NUMEROLOGY

$1 mn

is the amount Facebook has paid in the past two years to security researchers who report bugs on its website, with India second among recipients by country.

I was there that August night and that is what counts. I am one of the few witnesses — living or dead — to what was 'The Crime of the Century' Ronnie Biggs, member of the Great Train Robbery gang, See page 5

THINGS WE 5LEARNT TODAY

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

Will new state of Telangana be in the dark? Telangana is likely to face around 2000 MW power shortage, after the division. The state needs 56 per cent power while it is getting only 36 per cent now.

POWER DISTRIBUTION

T STARES AT BLACKOUT

A serious issue of power supply awaits the nascent state, Telangana. The region has so far been relatively neglected on the power front and now if the State becomes a reality, it would face an electricity crunch. MOHSIN ALI ali@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: Power distribution can become a serious problem for Telangana after the bifurcation of the state, as it is receiving just 36 per cent MW capacity from the total production of Andhra Pradesh while the demand is 56 per cent on an average in the region — which is a huge loss. Senior officials at AP Transco told Postnoon the Centre must forthwith assign a special committee on power distribution between the two states. Telangana is likely to face around 2,000 MW power shortage, after the division. Number of major power plants in Andhra Pradesh is 19, including both thermal and hydel, and total generating capacity from these plants is 16,350 MW and Telangana gets only 58.50 MW. The hydel plants are completely dependent on monsoon. If the inflow is heavy in these reservoirs the plants can be generate sufficient power as the hydel plants have around 2,200 MW installed capacity. However, due to lack of rains

Telangana is likely to face around 2,000 MW power shortage after bifurcation. Though the combined generating capacity from the 19 major power plants in AP is 16,350 MW, Telangana gets only 58.50 MW.

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they just produce 400 to 500 MW per year — 20 per cent of the total capacity. Speaking about the iniquity in power distribution in Andhra Pradesh, convener Telangana Electricity Employees JAC, P Raghu, blamed that “all the natural resources of Telangana

RAMZAN IN PAKISTAN

TV preachers battle for ratings In the battle for TV ratings, Pakistan’s top channels are making money out of Ramzan by broadcasting round-the-clock chat shows mixing prizes, charity and prayer.

Pak TV channel defends itself for giving out babies. It is not commercialisation, it is not showbiz. It is real Islam, is what Aamir Liaquat Hussain, the host of the TV programme, has to say.

TJAC, T employee unions in damage control mode. KCR’s incendiary statement has got the Seemandhra employees worried. The Telangana supporters are now trying to mollify the worried lot.

Growth of India's knowledge process outsourcing market. The market is growing at a compound annual growth rate of about 30 per cent annually and may touch $30 billion by 2015.

Sri Lanka port aims to be new shipping hub. The terminal in Colombo is located mid-way on the lucrative east-west sea route.

were being funneled out by the present government to benefit Andhra. Water resources too are diverted toward Seemandhra. So we can’t generate sufficient power in the Hydel plants. “Generating power with thermal plants is too costly. Of the approximate 2,000 MW we required we must buy from the market that would bleed the State to the extent of `8000 Crore per annum. The government played the partial role

favouring Andhra and provided all the facilities to the private power generation companies now there is a surplus power 10, 500 MW in that region” Raghu said. Power production officials believe the Centre must set up an expert committee immediately so that it would get sufficient time to come up with a justifiable formula of power sharing. “It would be helpful if the power generating plants are divided equally in both the regions, or should be distributed as per the density of the populations,” said a senior official. An alternative would be darkness in Telangana.

GUILLAUME LAVALLÉE feedback@postnoon.com KARACHI: As a top-rated show fends off allegations of poor ethics for giving babies to childless couples live on air, producers tell AFP that there is nothing wrong with blending

religion and entertainment. Members of the studio audience queue for hours for ringside seats at Aamir Liaquat Hussain’s 12-hour, daily broadcasting extravaganza which combines microwave raffles with child adoption. With a closely cropped beard,

spectacles and smile plastered permanently to his face, Hussain is no stranger to controversy. But unable to substantiate his alleged degree in Islamic studies from Spain, he revels in his status. “It is not commercialisation, it is not showbiz. It is real Islam,” he told AFP. “I am the religious icon of television.” Sumaya, an 18-year-old student queuing up to get a pass onto the show, is a massive fan. “According to me he is the most popular because of the gifts and also because they are helping poor people for Iftar and what they are saying about Islam,” she told AFP. On his TV set, a wedding hall at a Karachi hotel, adverts for ketchup vie for space with pictures of camels grazing in the shade of artificial palm trees. Hussain croons into the

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microphone about the virtues of fasting, of inter-faith tolerance and recites the Koran. He plays with children, oversees the cooking of oily chicken masala and invites Sufi singers to perform religious songs, whipping the viewers into a frenzy. The show lulls its guests, getting ever hungrier, towards sun down and the breaking of the fast when plates of dates, battered vegetables and sugary delicacies are handed out to much relief. After dinner, there are quizzes — with mobile phones, a motorbike and even a car as prizes.

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POLITICS

Curious role reversal in agitation The incendiary statement of the TRS president KCR that all Seemandhra employees must leave Hyderabad has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Now, T employees’ unions and TJAC are trying to do damage-control. INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: Tables have been turned, roles reversed. Now, it is the Telangana votaries who are trying to mollify Seemandhra the need to have two States and the benefits thereof. The other day, the Telangana Joint Action Committee (T-JAC) resolved to begin a sensitisation programme to explain the brothers of Rayala Andhra to stop agitations and understand the importance of two States flourishing side-by-side. This followed the decision of the AP Non-Gazetted Officers Association (APNGOA) to launch an indefinite strike from the midnight of August 12.

“Seemandhra People, who have settled in Hyderabad are worried about their safety in the city. We need to make it clear that they don’t have to worry about their security as they are also an integral part of the City like any other resident. We will provide them adequate security if they have any apprehension. Our only request to these people is that don’t fall prey to the gullible tactics of

politicians and agitate against the formation of Telangana State,” Telangana NonGazetted Officers Association (TNGOA) president C Devi Prasad said. The employees association have already begun a campaign from State Secretariat and are trying to create awareness among the Seemandhra employees working there. On the other hand, the CPI, a strong votary of separate Telangana, has also begun the process of convincing the Seemandhra people in the wake

of continuous agitations in the two regions. The state secretary of the party, K Narayana held a meeting with experts from various fields to come up with a strategy to convince the Seeamandhra people and dissuade them from agitating against the division. “Telangana is going to be a reality soon. At such an important juncture, the agitation by Seemandhra people would send out a wrong signal to the world. There is a strong need to create awareness among these people about the benefits of division and make them feel secured in the newly formed states. We have taken an initiative towards this direction,” Narayana says. Experts from different fields

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The CPI, a strong votary of separate Telangana, has also begun the process of convincing the Seemandhra people in the wake of continuous agitations. including irrigation, legal, health, education and commerce have been drawn for the sensitisation programme of the TJAC and T-employees Unions.

GOLDEN JUBILEE

Great Train Robber Biggs stays defiant The gang stole the equivalent of £45 million ($69 million, 52 million euros) in today’s money from a mail train travelling from Glasgow to London 50 years ago.

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the Great Train Robbery are the families, the families of everyone involved in the Great Train Robbery, and from both sides of the track. “All have paid a price for our collective involvement in the robbery. A very heavy price, in the case of my family. “For that, I do have some regrets.” While the train robbers’ exploits have passed into folklore, many people deplore the fate of the driver, Jack Mills. He was coshed over the head by another member of the gang, never recovered from his head injuries and died seven years later.

Biggs, who will celebrate his 84th birthday on the anniversary of the robbery, was released from prison in 2009 after his lawyer claimed he was close to death follow-

ing a series of strokes. But he is still alive and although now confined to a wheelchair he showed he has lost none of his old defiance by making an obscene hand gesture to journalists at the funeral of the gang’s mastermind Bruce Reynolds in March this year. Biggs, who cannot speak and communicates through a spelling board, said ahead of the 50th anniversary: “If you want to ask me if I have any regrets about being one of the

train robbers, my answer is ‘no!' “I will go further: I am proud to have been one of them. I am equally happy to be described as the ‘tea-boy’ or ‘The Brain'. “I was there that August night and that is what counts. I am one of the few witnesses — living or dead — to what was ‘The Crime of the Century'." Biggs admitted however that he does have some regrets. “It is regrettable, as I have said many times, that the train driver was injured," the Londoner said. And he was not the only victim. The people who paid the heaviest price for

Lightning kills five in Odisha

Woman, paramour held for killing husband

1,800 Bangladeshi tribals return home

Fire in burn unit of SCB hospital, none injured

Ansari meets new Iran President Rouhani

BHUBANESWAR: Five deaths were caused by lightning in Odisha, ofﬁcials said on Monday. Two were spectators of a football match. Three women were struck by lightning in two villages near Puri. All the deaths occurred Sunday. The administration said it is taking measures to provide relief to the kin.

GHAZIABAD: A woman was arrested along with her paramour and his friend for allegedly killing her husband for objecting to her extra-marital affair, police said today. Afsana, along with her lover Naseem, suffocated her husband, Akhbar, to death on the night of July 15 after he came drunk home and picked up a ﬁght, police said.

AGARTALA: Over 1,800 Bangladeshi tribals, who fled across the Indian border into Tripura after ethnic strife broke out with nontribal Muslims, returned to their villages after Dhaka assured them security. Men, women and children of Chakma and Tripuri tribes had taken shelter in Karbook after fleeing from five villages in Bangladesh.

CUTTACK: At least 20 patients in the plastic surgery unit of SCB Medical College and Hospital here escaped unhurt when a ﬁre broke out inside a cabin of the unit, ofﬁcials said today. The patients of the two adjacent wards were evacuated immediately by two senior resident doctors present in the unit at the time of the incident last evening.

TEHRAN: Vice President Hamid Ansari Sunday met new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani after the latter’s swearing in ceremony in Tehran. Ansari represented India at the swearing-in ceremony. Rouhani, who won a landslide victory in the June 14 presidential election, succeeds president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

LONDON: Half a century after Britain’s infamous Great Train Robbery, the most notorious member of the gang, Ronnie Biggs (right), is unrepentant and says he is proud of his role in the heist. The crime itself was audacious enough, but it was Biggs’ 36 years on the run and his high-profile new life in Brazil which propelled him to fame. He escaped from prison in 1965 and was finally arrested and thrown back in jail in 2001 on his voluntary return to Britain.

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ART SHOW

Get transported to another world To transport you into a world of childhood fantasy, that’s what artist Jaya Javeri intends to do with her solo show titled An Age of Innocence at Ginger Lily Art Gallery, Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel. ARUN DANIEL YELLAMATY arunyellamaty@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: To transport you into a world of childhood fantasy, that’s what artist Jaya Javeri intends to do with her solo show titled An Age of Innocence at Ginger Lily Art Gallery, Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel. This is her 17th solo show. There are 20 paintings under three sections. One of them is the “Hide and Seek” in which you see children playing the game in backgrounds as diverse as forests and sunflower fields, and forts and temples. Talking about her paintings and the theme, she says, “I don’t think of a theme when I sit to paint,” she says, “I go by my instinct but later, when I step back to see all the paintings, I see a common theme and then complete the series with paintings that conform

T DREAMS

Universal education in T, says KCR POSTNOON NEWS feedback@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: As the Telangana State is conceptually accepted, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief and firebrand leader K Chandrasekhara Rao (KCR), has already started announcing many of his ‘dreams’ for Telangana. KCR said compulsory education to all the children of Telangana was his unfulfilled dream. He would launch a movement for it. Rao says that residential schools would be set up in all districts for all irrespective of castes and religions. He said if someone would ask him on what autority he was talking all this, he said, it was his dream and narrated only his dream. It should not be

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construed as his ambition to become the chief minister of the new state. He said he was not dreaming of becoming the Chief Minister and assured all to make efforts to see a Dalit as the Chief Minister of the new state. He said he would talk to the rulers about his dreams and ensure that they

were fulfilled. KCR is unwilling to withdraw all his controversial statements against the other regions of the State. However, he backtracked he had threatened the Seemandhra employees working in Hyderabad.

to the theme. In this set of paintings, the predominant theme is Hide and Seek.” Jaya does oils on canvas and paint with the knife. “I love textures and each canvas of mine has three coats of paint,” she elaborates.

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Jaya has even put up a solo art in New York, the hub of artists. “It was a wonderful experience, many people appreciated my work.” Jaya credits her mother for her becoming an artist. “My mother noticed me painting at the age of six and saw to it I got formal training,” she recalled. Jaya believes that artistic talent should be spotted early so that training could begin early. “A lot of

parents come up to me and ask me to train their children. I feel mothers nowadays have started to work on their children at young age.” While making the observation that art market fluctuates depending on the disposable income of patrons, Jaya says she is happy that people now buy paintings and not prints. Jaya’s art show is put up for display till the August 9.

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Family dog kills two-year-old boy SYDNEY: A two-year-old boy has been mauled to death at his grandmother’s house in a savage attack by a mastiff cross dog, Australian police said on Monday. The tragedy unfolded on Sunday afternoon at Deniliquin in southwestern New South Wales state, with reports that the boy went outside to get an ice-cream from a back fridge and the dog, a family pet, followed. It was not clear what

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sparked the attack. The toddler’s mother and grandmother both desperately tried to pull the dog off the child but to no avail, with the boy suffering severe head injuries. “The child’s grandmother, aged 70, intervened but was unable to release the child. The

child’s mother arrived and fought the dog off the boy,” the NSW police department said in a statement. “He and his grandmother were taken to Deniliquin Hospital ... but he died a short time later. The older woman has been treated for exhaustion, bruising and abrasions.” The dog, not usually considered a dangerous breed, was captured and put down. AFP

PARLIAMENTARY MATTERS

PM seeks productive Monsoon Session

When RTI saved a neta PANAJI: Aggressive use of the Right to Information Act led to his exoneration in a graft case being probed by the CBI, Goa CM Manohar Parrikar said. Making a Facebook update late Sunday, Parrikar also dismissed allegations of local RTI activists who said he had tried to scuttle the act in Goa. The Goa chief minister explained how taking the RTI route to its logical conclusion had helped him obtain official documents to slug it out against the CBI case filed by a Congress politician, accusing him of corruption while building infrastructure for the first International Film Festival of India (IFFI) of 2004 in Goa. AROUND THE

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The Monsoon Session of the parliament scheduled August 5-30 has 44 Bills listed for its available 16 working days. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday once again appealed to the Opposition to ensure a “truly productive” session. “The Monsoon Session is beginning today. It is my sincere hope and prayer, and appeal to all sections of the House to ensure this session is truly productive,” the prime minister said. “We have wasted a lot of time in the previous session, and I hope that will not be repeated in this session,” he said. “We are willing to discuss on Floor of House and therefore I appeal to the Opposition to cooperate in the smooth running of the House to ensure this session is productive and constructive,” the prime minister added. This is the second time the prime minister has appealed to the Opposition for a productive session.

Rules will be followed in Durga Shakti’s case: PM NEW DELHI: Rules will “be followed” in the case of suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday. “There are rules laid down. They will be followed. We are in touch with the state government to get details of the case,” the prime minister said here in response to a question from a mediaperson on the government’s stand on Durga Shakti’s case. The suspension of Nagpal, a 28-year-old 2009batch IAS officer by the Uttar Pradesh government July 29, has led to a public outcry.

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This is the second time the prime minister has appealed to the Opposition for a productive session.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ensure fair treatment for Nagpal and stressed need for safeguards to protect officials “working to uphold rule of law”.

The prime minister had said Saturday that the food security bill was the most important legislative business before parliament. The monsoon session of the parliament scheduled August 5-30 has 44 Bills listed for its available 16 working days. The list of pending Bills with government exceeds 100. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath has also said that the government may consider extending the session, if needed. IANS

The Goa chief minister has consistently maintained that the case was bogus and had been filed with political intentions. He was exonerated by the CBI. Parrikar said the accusations against him of trying to gradually scuttle the RTI act by trying to keep the Vigilance Department out of its ambit were false, and that he was not even aware of the noting which had been moved by the officials in the department. Calling his own department’s proposal “most regressive and negative”, the chief minister said that while the RTI had been misused by a few, it was still a powerful tool for the common man. IANS

WORLD BRIEFS Turkey court to deliver ruling in coup trial

Oz’s richest woman bids to end family feud

Fonterra apologises over Baby sold by doctor milk scare : CEO rescued in China

Three die in Vietnam storm

ISTANBUL: A Turkish court was due on Monday to deliver its first ruling in the trial of 275 people including a former army chief accused of plotting to overthrow the country’s Islamic-rooted government. Among the defendants in the high-profile case are ex-military chief Ilker Basbug and other army officers as well as lawyers, academics and journalists.

SYDNEY: Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has offered to end a messy legal battle with two of her children for control of a multi-billion dollar family trust by appointing a co-trustee, reports said Monday. Two of Rinehart’s four children want their mother to have her removed as trustee of the trust which was established by their grandfather.

BEIJING: New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra apologised Monday for a botulism scare that saw product recalls in China, denying accusations by Prime Minister John Key that it had delayed releasing information. “We deeply apologise to the people who have been affected,” CEO Theo Spierings said, insisting that the company had informed customers.

HANOI: Three people were killed and four injured when a storm battered Vietnam, authorities said. The storm Sunday also damaged hundreds of houses, submerged thousands of hectares of rice and crops and impacted major infrastructure facilities, mostly in the northern provinces, Xinhua reported. The storm is estimated to have caused damage worth $480,000.

BEIJING: Police have recovered a newborn boy who was allegedly sold to human trafﬁckers by an obstetrician in China’s Shaanxi province. Six suspects have been arrested. The baby boy was allegedly sold for 21,600 yuan by an obstetrician from Fuping County Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital a day after he was born July 16, ofﬁcials said.

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MOROCCO

Spanish paedophile pardon revoked King Mohamed VI of Morocco on Sunday revoked a pardon granted to a Spanish serial paedophile whose release sparked angry protests in the kingdom, a palace statement said.

he king “has decided to withdraw the pardon previously accorded to Daniel Galvan Vina”, said the text of the statement, published by the official MAP news agency. It said the “exceptional” decision was taken because of the “gravity of the crimes committed and out of respect for the victims’ rights”. Although several media reports have said Vina has left the country, the agency said the justice minister would discuss with Madrid “the next step after the pardon’s revocation”. This “opens the way for Rabat to request the paedophile serves in a Spanish jail” the 28 years remaining of his sentence, Spain’s ambassador to Morocco, Alberto Navarro, told Spanish daily El Pais. The king’s announcement came shortly before a demonstration against the pardon, after baton-wielding police dispersed

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WASHINGTON: US missions across the Middle East and Africa will be closed through August 10, officials said Sunday, amid intelligence reports an AlQaeda attack may be imminent. The State Department, noting it was acting “out of an abundance of caution,” said 19 diplomatic outposts would be shuttered through Saturday. The list includes 15 that were already ordered closed Sunday due to the security fears, as well as four additional posts. “This is not an indication of a new threat stream, merely an indication of our commitment to exercise caution” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

protests on Friday. Hundreds gathered in Kenitra, north of the capital, where Vina was imprisoned, according to an AFP reporter on the scene. The protest took place under a heavy police presence but passed off peacefully. Demonstrators AROUND THE

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onvicted of raping 11 children aged between four and 15, Vina was among 48 Spanish prisoners released in response to a request from Spanish King Juan Carlos, who visited Morocco in midJuly, the justice ministry said.

expressed satisfaction at the king’s actions but continued to press for explanations as to how the initial pardon could have occurred. Sit-ins planned for Casablanca on Tuesday and Rabat on Wednesday were still due to go ahead. Vina, said to be in his 60s, was pardoned by the king and freed last Tuesday from jail. He had been sentenced in September 2011 to 30 years in prison. Convicted of raping 11 children aged between four and 15, Vina was among 48 Spanish prisoners released in response to a request from Spanish King Juan Carlos, who visited Morocco in mid-July, the justice ministry said. In Spain, the opposition socialist party demanded explanations from the government. Earlier, the palace said in a statement carried on MAP that the king had been unaware of the nature of the man’s crimes and had ordered a probe into his

release. The investigation should “determine the responsibilities and the failures that led to this regrettable release”, the statement said. “The king was never informed — in any way or at any time — of the seriousness of the abject crimes of which the person concerned was convicted,” the palace added. “It is clear that the sovereign would never have consented” to his release, given the “monstrous crimes” he committed, the state-

ment concluded. The pardon sparked outrage in the north African country, which has seen several high-profile paedophile arrests in recent months. Protesters slammed the pardon as “an international shame” with one demonstrator saying the state “defends the rape of Moroccan children”. On June 20, police arrested a British suspected paedophile after local residents overheard screams from a six-year-old girl he allegedly abducted.

HE SERVES BOMBS, SHE SERVES BIRYANI

picture uploaded on the official page of the Syrian Presidency on the internet social network site, Facebook, shows Syria’s First Lady Asma al-Assad (L) serving an iftar meal for orphans and displaced families at an orphanage in Damascus on August 4, 2013, a few days before the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan to mark Lailat alQadr, or Night of Destiny, when Muslims believe the first verses of the Koran were revealed to the Prophet Mohammed. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s office has also been using a new Instagram account to post photographs of him greeting supporters, and images of his wife Asma visiting hospital patients.

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ASSOCHAM PROJECTION

KPO market to cross $30 bn KPOs has advantages like better work tools and processes, more sophisticated client centricity, higher billing rates and more domain-focused organisations. Why India is an ideal KPO destination

espite slowdown, India’s Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) market is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 30 per cent annually and may touch $30 billion by 2015, from the current level of $20 billion, according to ASSOCHAM. The rising demand for profession-based services is expected to drive the growth in the industry in areas of research for capital and financial markets, legal works, editing jobs for international publishing houses among many others, reveals the ASSOCHAM recent paper on “Current scenario of Indian KPO Industry”. ASSOCHAM secretary general DS Rawat said that presently, domestic KPO industry is facing stiff competition from countries like Philippines, Russia, China, Poland and Hungary as these are emerging strong contenders for KPO business in view of qualified KPO professionals, low-cost advantages, domain expertise, location advantage, sales and marketing capabilities and data compliance. A vast pool of highly educated professionals in engineering, medicines, management and professionals in the field of accountancy, company secretary and legal fraternity would be required to serve the industry. Number as per rough estimates should be well within the range of over 6-8 lakh against the current numbers of 3.5 lakh.

There is sufficient untapped potential in smaller cities but the questions remain on how to leverage on these opportunities without adversely affecting organisational and logistical effectiveness. Rawat added that it is difficult for KPO companies to always find a qualified, experienced and talented workforce in India. Considering the situation that there is no dearth of engineers, doctors, MBAs, lawyers etc. in India, the KPO industry is banking on availability of this talented pool to fill up its seats, but now they are facing the supply crunch.

n India has a large availability of post-graduates, PhDs and MBAs with experience in KPO. n India’s professionals are proﬁcient in popular KPO software like SPSS, SAS and MS Excel. Indians are also highly proﬁcient in English. n As of 2013, the total market size of the KPO industry in India has reached over $20 billion. n India currently caters to over 70% of the world’s KPO industry. n As of 2013, the Indian KPO sector has employed over 3,50,000 knowledge process outsourcing professionals. n India has trained KPO experts who have advanced analytical, technical and interpretation skills.

It is the kind of shortfall predicted between target and realistic growth that is worrying. If the industry is unable to sustain the momentum, it is quite possible that the other alternative destinations will become increasingly attractive for the clients. The nature of the KPO work makes is easier for clients to switch, adds Rawat. Indian KPO companies can see these findings on the manpower availability coming out of the research either as a limiting factor or a challenge for their growth. The resource requirement should be seen as a challenge and addressed, he added. The potential solution is expanding into tier-2 and tier-3 cities. There is sufficient untapped potential in these smaller cities but the questions on how to leverage on these opportunities without adversely affecting organizational and logistical effectiveness- is a challenge. This approach of distributed working looks more promising for the KPO companies than traditional IT or BPO companies. Lot of work that is part of KPO can be done by individuals or small teams — remote work is also possible. The KPO work is knowledge intensive and it should be possible hence for these companies to come up with working models that can tap into the isolated resources pools available in smaller towns across

Popular KPO services n Equity research n Business and market research n Intellectual property research n Medical and legal research n Financial research n Research reports n Research in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals

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India, adds the ASSOCHAM. The second way is to partner with educational institutes to ensure that students passing out of universities have the right skill set. Both the approaches are being followed by Indian IT companies to certain extent so there is opportunity for KPO companies to learn from already existing partnerships and grow the scale to address their own requirement, reveals the paper. The KPO sector deals with confidential data, including financial data, treasury and cash management functions and investment portfolio decisions and needs to address the issue of data security raised by international clients, said Rawat. The paper also predicts that KPOs has also other advantages like better work tools and pro-

n India’s favorable government policies and time zone make it an ideal outsourcing location.

cesses, more sophisticated client centricity, higher billing rates and more domain focused organisations. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are likely to be the major growth drivers for the KPO sector. According to estimates, out of the 20 million SMEs in US and Europe, about 15% can benefit from KPO services due to reduced complexity, ability to compete effectively with small and large competitors, shorter time to market, higher flexibility, overall lower costs and potentially higher quality for the same costs. In fact, in the near future, KPO is likely to be driven by factors like breadth and depth of coverage, domain expertise, location advantage (e.g., nearshoring and language capabilities), sales and marketing capabilities, data compliance with respect to regulatory standards (especially those defined by the United States, Canada and the European Union) and the management of business risks. The KPO industry is maturing and the range of services being provided has expanded as the market has developed. From its initial beginnings in research and analytics, the definition of KPO currently includes a variety of services, such as legal process outsourcing and clinical trial management. China is an attractive location

for companies that run and manage all phases of the clinical trial process, as it offers a significant pool of potential patients in an important emerging market. Along with China, the Philippines is also becoming an increasingly important player in the KPO market. It has started to carve out a niche for itself in a number of key areas, including healthcare outsourcing . Sri Lanka has also focused on developing skills around specific service lines. For example, the country has a significant number of qualified accountants, capable of providing the kind of highend complex tasks associated with service areas such as equity and credit research.

Along with China, the Philippines is also becoming an increasingly important player in the KPO market. It has started to carve out a niche for itself in a number of key areas. Assocham report

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NY cops gun down armed teen

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NEW YORK CITY: Police in New York City shot dead a 14-year-old US boy as he was chasing and shooting at another male before dawn on Sunday. Two rookie officers heard shots around 3 am. They went to investigate and saw the teenager, identified as Bronx-resident Shaaliver Douse, armed with a 9 mm handgun, pursuing and firing at another young man. “Ordered to ‘drop the gun’ by the uniformed officers who identified themselves as police, the male with the gun still in his hand, did not comply,” the statement said. “One of the officers discharged one round, striking the armed male in the lower left jaw. The male was pronounced DOA at the scene.” The two officers, aged 26 and 27 and with less than seven months experience on the force, were taken to the hospital due to trauma and ringing in their ears. No other injuries were reported. AFP

unisian poeple with flags chant slogans in Tunis in front of the Constituent Assembly headquarters against the Islamist government. Tunisia said its forces killed a “terror” suspect in a dawn raid Sunday and separately foiled a political assassination like the one that has plunged the country into crisis. The announcements came after rival protests for and against the Islamist-led coalition government, with the opposition demanding the resignation of the cabinet and the dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly. AFP/ FETHI BELAID

FEAR OF FUTURE

Detroit workers fear effects of city’s bankruptcy Thousands of pensioners already struggling to get by are afraid they will be pushed into poverty if the city of Detroit is able to slash their benefits in a bankruptcy court.

JOE SZCZESNY Agence France-Presse DETROIT: Thousands of pensioners already struggling to get by are afraid they will be pushed into poverty if the city of Detroit is able to slash their benefits in a bankruptcy court. Retired fire chief Jerry Franklin Smith spent 39 years battling blazes in a city filled with abandoned buildings and too many arsonists. He’s worried that if a bankruptcy judge allows the city to wipe out its obligations to his pension fund he’ll need to somehow find a job at the age of 78. “I’ve only done physical things all my life. But I really can’t do them anymore,” Smith told AFP. “It makes you nervous.”

Conner’s case

arol Conner, 63, has already seen her modest monthly stipend shrink after the city imposed higher fees for retiree health care beneﬁts. “How am I supposed to get by?” said Conner, who lives on Detroit’s crime-ridden east side on a monthly pension comes that currently comes to less than 1,600 dollars.

Police and firefighters don’t qualify for the federally-run Social Security pension plan, which has an average payout of $1,268 a month. So their city-run plan is the only thing keeping them out of food banks or even homeless shelters. Luckily it is better-funded than a separate plan run for Detroit’s other municipal workers. But it is still owed millions and the city is hoping to slash all pension and retiree health care benefits in order to wipe out debt and reduce future costs.

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Emergency manager Kevyn Orr was in court Friday urging a federal judge to find the city eligible for bankruptcy in the second such hearing since the birthplace of the US auto industry became the largest US city to go bust on July 19. Orr has estimated that about nine billion dollars of the city’s $18.5 billion in debt is owed to the pension funds and retiree health care benefits of the city’s 10,000 workers and 20,000 retirees. Unions and the pension administrators dispute his calculations and have filed suit to block

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any significant cuts, noting that pension benefits are protected by Michigan’s constitution. “Governor (Rick) Snyder has taken an oath to protect every aspect of our constitution, thereby he would be violating said oath should he fail to protect our pensions,” said Mark Diaz, president of the Detroit Police Officers Association. “Though there is a great deal of uncertainty about the direction these proceedings will go, know this; there is no end to the lengths we will go in order to protect the heroes who protect

the City of Detroit.” The legal fight could drag on for months or even years, leaving city workers and retirees who’d planned their lives around those previously fixed payments in limbo. Carol Conner, 63, has already seen her modest monthly stipend shrink after the city imposed higher fees for retiree health care benefits. “How am I supposed to get by?” said Conner, who lives on Detroit on a monthly pension comes that currently comes to less than $1,600. Conner, who retired

from her position as a building attendant to care for her 83-yearold mother, said she is among many Detroiters who turned to the city as a job of last resort. The pay wasn’t very good, but she needed a job and health care benefits. Conner worked at Chrysler and General Motors — which were successfully restructured under bankruptcy protect in 2009 thanks to billions in help from the federal government — but was downsized before she could quality for a pension from either automaker.

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GRAVE SENTINELS

Volunteers up Lanka aims to be for royal duty S Asian shipping hub The new port in Sri Lanka gives China a vital foothold on the world’s busiest shipping lane. AMAL JAYASINGHE Agence France-Presse COLOMBO: A $500 million Chinese-built port opens Monday in Sri Lanka, giving Beijing a vital foothold on the world’s busiest international shipping lane as it seeks to secure maritime supply routes. The massive terminal in Colombo is located mid-way on the lucrative east-west sea route and has facilities on a par with Singapore and Dubai. The Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT), which is 85 percent owned by the state-run China Merchant Holdings International, is designed to handle mega ships — a first for Sri Lanka which is aiming to become the region’s shipping hub. The involvement of such a large Chinese company appears to conform to a pattern by Beijing after it sealed a deal in January to acquire the Pakistani port of Gwadar at a time when it is also building a $14 million “dry port” in the Nepalese city of Larcha, near Tibet. Chinese loans and expertise were also instrumental in the construction of a new $450 million deep-sea port at the southern Sri Lankan city of Hambantota which opened in June 2012. Independent shipping expert, Rohan Masakorala, says the new terminal made economic sense for China to tap in to the growing South Asian container cargo and gave Beijing a foothold along a strategic sea route. “Terminal investments are a good business which can give a very good return,” said Masakorala, a former secretarygeneral of the Singapore-based Asian Shippers Council. “Through this investment, China is also securing the safety and efficiency of their main supply chain.” Masakorala, who heads the Shippers’ Academy Colombo,

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said about half of all world sea trade passed through the eastwest shipping route and a presence at a mid-way point along that gives China a commanding position.

Dry port

he involvement of such a large Chinese company appears to conform to a pattern by Beijing after it sealed a deal in January to acquire the Pakistani port of Gwadar at a time when it is also building a $14m “dry port” in the Nepalese city of Larcha, near Tibet.

For the big ships

he Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT), which is 85 percent owned by the state-run China Merchant Holdings International, is designed to handle mega ships — a first for Sri Lanka which is aiming to become the region’s shipping hub.

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“For China to maintain economic growth at home, they also need to go out and secure their supply routes. In that sense, coming to Colombo is a strategic commercial investment.” The Chinese investment in Sri Lanka, which is under pressure from Western powers and India over its human rights record, has raised fears in New Delhi about Beijing’s influence in the neighbourhood. But Priyath Bandu Wickrama, chairman of the state-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), insisted that India had nothing to fear from the new Colombo port and could in fact be a major beneficiary. “We will not allow any military base at our ports nor will we allow them to be used for any strategic military purpose by anyone,” Wickrama said. Wickrama said shippers in India could save up to four days by routing their cargo through Sri Lanka rather than using Singapore or Dubai. “Earlier, Indians along the east coast had to send their cargo to Singapore if they wanted to catch a mega ship going West. Now these mega ships will be going through Colombo and picking up Indian cargo,” he told AFP.

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BEIJING: In the countryside of Xianyang in northwest China’s Shaanxi province, a farmer named He Jin patrols the fields every night with a flashlight and a baton. For the past 15 years, the man has been among thousands of people who have volunteered to protect heritage sites packed with tombs of Chinese emperors. Xianyang was the capital of the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.). The area where tombs of the 27 Han (206 B.C.-A.D.220) and Tang (618-907 A.D.) dynasties in the city are located is dubbed the “City of Oriental Pyramids”, Xinhua news agency reported. Shaanxi province has 37,820 ancient ruins and tombs. In the past three years, it has uncovered 893 criminal cases related to cultural relics, arrested 735 suspects and recovered 2,698 relics. He Jin’s guards the Kangling Mausoleum, tomb of Han Dynasty Emperor Ping. Fifteen years ago, aged 24, he quit the military and came back home to Xianyang. Unlike his peers who migrated to cities for big money, he chose to stay and became a volunteer guard. The area around his village was surrounded by many subordinate tombs — holding the remains of lesser personages clustered near the main

He Jin’s guards the Kangling Mausoleum, tomb of Han Dynasty Emperor Ping. Fifteen years ago, aged 24, he quit the military and came back home to Xianyang. Unlike his peers who migrated to cities for big money, he chose to stay and became a volunteer guard.

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emperor’s burial ground. But there were no laws to protect cultural relics in China at that time. Many villagers removed materials from the tombs to build houses, or even farm on top of the bigger tombs. There are only two official employees of the Kangling Mausoleum Relics Management Center, a government department for cultural relics protection, according to director Zhang Xiaojun. As the office is shortstaffed, “so we invite volunteer farmers to help us”, he said. There are nearly 5,000 people in Shaanxi province who volunteer for cultural heritage protection, and most of them are farmers. AROUND THE

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But these volunteers face great hardship. They do the work without any pay or holidays. In the daytime, they labour in their own fields or on nearby construction sites. In addition, their lives are often at risk. The volunteers make their rounds every night after 8 p.m. and they sometimes encounter grave robbers, who are fierce and malicious, a farmer said. Dong Mingyuan, 71, works as a volunteer to guard the Maoling Mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. “It is said that people with my family name are descendants of Dong Zhongshu, an eminent Chinese scholar in the Han Dynasty. So it is our responsibility to protect these tombs,” Dong said. Dong Mingyuan comes to the tombs every day. If he sees any suspicious people, he reports them to the authorities immediately. He has come across grave robbers and many unruly visitors. On one occasion, two men managed to vault over the fence around the tomb. He stopped them. One of the intruders punched him in the face. AFP

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A year after finding the Higgs Boson

CERN’S ON A NEW QUEST JONATHAN FOWLER Agence France-Presse

ehind the scenes, work is pushing ahead to give the vast machine a mighty upgrade, enabling it to advance the frontiers of knowledge even farther. GENEVA, August 4, 2013 (AFP) - A year ago, the world’s largest particle collider made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science, identifying what is believed to be the Higgs Boson — the long-sought maker of mass. Today, its computer screens are dark, the control desks unstaffed and the giant, supercooled tunnel empty of the crashing proton beams whose snapshots of the Big Bang helped flush out the elusive particle. But the silence is an illusion. Behind the scenes, work is pushing ahead to give the vast machine a mighty upgrade, enabling it to advance the frontiers of knowledge even farther. The 27-kilometre (17-mile) circular lab, straddling the French-Swiss border 100 metres (325 feet) underground, went offline in February for an 18month overhaul. And when experiments resume in 2015, scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) will use its enhanced power to probe dark matter, dark energy and supersymmetry — ideas considered as wild as the Higgs Boson was, half a century ago. As engineers focus on the technical mission, physicists are sifting through the mountains of data that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has churned out since 2010, for there could be more nuggets to find. “The things that are easy to spot have already been exploited, and now we’re taking another look,” said Tiziano Camporesi of CERN, noting wryly that dealing with the unknown was, well, unknowable. “We always say that astronomers have an easier task, because they can actually see what they’re looking for!” The LHC’s particle collisions transform energy into mass, the goal being to find fundamental particles in the sub-atomic debris that help us to understand the Universe. At peak capacity, the “old” LHC managed a mind-boggling 550 million collisions per second. “We give the guys as many

A worker rides his bicycle in a tunnel of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), during maintenance works on July 19, 2013 in Meyrin, near Geneva.

collisions as we can,” said Mike Lamont, head of its operating team. “That’s our bread and butter.” “Most of that stuff is not very interesting, so there are real challenges sorting out and throwing most of that away, and picking out the interesting stuff,” he explained in the tunnel, which mixes installations fit for a starship with the low-tech practicality of bicycles for inspection

tours. CERN’s supercomputers are programmed to identify within microseconds the collisions worth more analysis — chunks of a few hundred per second — before thousands of physicists from across the globe comb the results to advance our knowledge of matter. “We want to understand how that behaves, why it sticks itself together into tiny things that we

The mystery of mass

t is believed to act like a fork dipped in syrup and held up in dusty air. While some dust slips through cleanly, most gets sticky — in other words, acquires mass. With mass comes gravity, which pulls particles together. The Standard Model is a trusty conceptual vehicle but it still lacks an explanation for gravity, nor does it account for dark matter and dark energy, which comprise most of the cosmos and whose existence is inferred from their impact on ordinary matter.

call atoms and nuclei at really small scales, into things that we call people and chairs and buildings at bigger scales, and then planets and solar systems, galaxies at larger scales,” said CERN spokesman James Gillies.

PUZZLES OF SCIENCE

CERN’s work can bemuse neophytes, but the researchers find ways to make it simple.

“Everybody knows what an electron is, especially if they put their finger in an electric socket,” joked Pierluigi Campana, whose team has just provided the most exhaustive confirmation to date of the Standard Model, the chief theoretical framework of particle physics conceived in the 1970s. They achieved the most accurate measurement yet of a change in a particle called a Bs, showing that out of every billion, only a handful decay into smaller particles called muon, and do so in pairs. For the experts, that finding was almost as thrilling as tracking the Higgs Boson — nicknamed the God Particle. It was theorised in 1964 by British physicist Peter Higgs and others in an attempt to explain a nagging anomaly — why some particles have mass while others, such as light, have none. It is believed to act like a fork dipped in syrup and held up in dusty air. While some dust slips through cleanly, most gets sticky — in other words, acquires mass. With mass comes gravity, which pulls particles together.

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Business

FOREIGN RETAILERS MAY NOT ENTER BEFORE ELECTIONS

Foreign retailers like Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour are unlikely to enter the supermarket business in India before the 2014 general elections even though the government has partly addressed their concerns and relaxed the norms, industry experts say.

HELPING HAND

VIRGIN EXPECTS $98M LOSS

Government bailout for Oz auto industry

Virgin Australia said Monday it was expecting a full-year loss of Aus$95$110 million (US$84-98 million) due to a range of factors including the tough economic environment and restructuring costs. In updated guidance for the financial year ended June 30, 2013, Virgin said its performance had been hit by the “difficult economic and competitive environment”, costs associated with its transformation, and Australia’s carbon tax. “As a result of these factors, Virgin Australia expects a statutory loss after tax in the range of $95 million to $110 million,” it said in a statement.

The auto manufacturing sector employs more than 50,000 people in Australia with another 250,000 jobs in associated industries. SYDNEY: The Australian government on Monday pledged a fresh Aus$200 million (US$177 million) bailout package for the car manufacturing industry as it looks to shore up struggling sectors to help the economy transition away from a mining boom. Industry Minister Kim Carr said the funds would ensure the “automotive manufacturing sector has a strong future and continues to provide high-skill, high-wage jobs for Australians”. The announcement came on the opening day of a five-week election campaign that will culminate in national polls on September 7, with the ruling Labour party facing an uphill battle against the conservative opposition. “The motor vehicle manufacturing industry in this country provides thousands of jobs, billions of dollars in export income and investment and benefits in research and development,” said Carr. “Our actions will provide crucial ongoing support for an

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Carr said he was consulting car makers and associated manufacturers about how best to spend the money. industry that has been under considerable pressure with a high Australian dollar over an extended period and an increasingly competitive global mar-

ket.” It has struggled, until very recently, with the Australian dollar trading near or above parity with the greenback for almost two years, squeezing exports and compounding rising production costs. Canberra extended a Aus$3.2 billion bailout to the ailing sector at the height of the global economic downturn and provided additional lifelines to Ford and Holden last

year. But it was not enough to prevent Ford from announcing in May that it will stop making vehicles in the country by 2016. General Motors subsidiary Holden, which in April announced a plan to slash 500 jobs, and Toyota are the two remaining major players in the industry. Carr said he was consulting car makers and associated manufacturers about how best to spend the money. AFP

Oil prices edge higher on Chinese economic data SINGAPORE: Oil prices turned higher in Asian trade on Monday on upbeat economic data from China but concerns about weak jobs growth in the United States capped gains, analysts said. New York’s main contract, West Texas Intermediate for delivery in September, gained

30 cents to $107.24 a barrel in afternoon trade, and Brent North Sea crude for September rose 25 cents to $109.20. Banking giant HSBC said Monday its purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for the services industry in China stood at 51.3 in July, unchanged from June.

A reading above 50 indicates growth, while anything below signals contraction. China’s official non-manufacturing PMI, released over the weekend, came in at 54.1 in July, from 53.9 in the previous month. “The HSBC purchasing managers’ index for the services industry in China

remains in an expansionary region, and this has provided support for crude prices,” Lee Chen Hoay, investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore, told AFP. Prices however remained under pressure over concerns about demand in the United States after a lacklustre US jobs report last week. AFP

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HSBC CLOSING ACCOUNTS Global banking giant HSBC is closing the accounts of foreign diplomats in Britain and giving them 60 days to move their money, a report said on Sunday. More than 40 embassies and consulates are said to have been affected, including the Vatican, with the decision being described as creating “havoc” in the diplomatic corps. The situation has been worsened by other banks refusing to take their business and the Foreign Ofﬁce has had to get involved. “We are in contact with HSBC and the diplomatic missions affected to help in opening a new bank account,” a Foreign Ofﬁce spokeswoman told AFP.

THUS SPAKE This case is motivated entirely by greed and I have no doubt that one day soon my brother and sisters will regret putting money before family. GINA RINEHART, AUSTRALIA’S RICHEST WOMAN

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Comment I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

MYOPIA

UDITA JHUNJHUNWALA Agence France-Presse

ollywood is foraying into controversial terrain with new spy thriller, "Madras Cafe", whose depiction of rebels in the Sri Lankan civil war has raised concerns among India's large Tamil population. The movie, which opens in India this month, features John Abraham as an Indian secret agent shortly after peace-keeping troops sent by New Delhi to Sri Lanka were forced to withdraw in 1990 following a three-year battle with separatist Tamil rebels. Director Shoojit Sircar describes "Madras Cafe", shot in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, as a "hardcore political film which examines conspiracies, espionage, how information is coded, decoded and passed through". India has a large and politically active Tamil population in its south and South Indian activists have already raised concerns over the movie's depiction of the rebels in the bloody conflict. But Sircar insists the movie, set in the early 1990s, "does not take sides. "The bigger message is that in a civil war, civilians suffer the most," he told AFP. While the film's main character is fictitious, Sircar said he had "used real references, portrayed rebel groups, revolutionary freedom fighters, Indian Peace Keeping Forces (and) shown how India got involved and the chaos". The conflict in Sri Lanka, which cost up to 100,000 lives, erupted in 1983 between government forces and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who were fighting for an independent state for ethnic Tamils.

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B’wood courts controversy with Sri Lankan war film

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS Come New Year, students at the Presidency University in Kolkata can opt for a new course on the enigma of love as part of the new interdisciplinary studies programme. The different course on love will deal with its sociological implications and begin from January.

PK Surendran

he Congress has the T(iger) by its tail. Either way, it is in for trouble. The Congress’s handling of Telangana issue is a perfect example on how a government should not go about bifurcating a state. Despite infinite time available at its disposal, the Central government made a mess of the issue as it failed to assess the people’s views on dividing the State. What was preventing the Centre to hold a referendum on the issue since it had all the time in the world? Dividing a state is the last resort, not the first, as the Congress party misconstrued. It has to think nationally, not locally and electorally, but then it is too much to ask from the Congress, perhaps. The abrupt declaration of Telangana state apparently without doing sufficient homework has led to the confusing situation in the State and fuelled similar demands elsewhere in the country. There is no denying that the Telangana region has suffered backwardness due to successive State governments’ apathy. And, pray, who have been providing

the government? The Congress alone, if one subtracts the nineyear interregnum of the TDP rule. It has been the Congress government’s cardinal sins that led to feelings of injury to the people of Telangana. But, correcting economic injustice is not dividing the State. The region should have been given a special package of development with love and care. And, if the regional party does not allow it, the government has all the weapons at its disposal to implement the pro-people development policies. Instead, the Congress party behaved like an autocrat and played with the sentiments of both Telangana and Seemandhra, calculating the number of MPs it would bag rather than what the Telugu people want.

SINS OF POLITICIANS IN THE STATE But one can’t fail to find fault with the politicians of RayalaAndhra who have been boorishly remaining aggressive toward the Telangana issue, dismissing it as impossible. Instead of ideologically arguing for a united state that can come on top of the country, they have been contented with making media statements ridiculing claims of the Telangana Rastra Samiti. They committed the proverbial error of mistaking the messenger for the message. It is not TRS but the people of Telangana who deserved an answer to their question as to why they are being short-changed. If the leaders of the other two regions had logically and convincingly

argued that a great state like Andhra Pradesh could progress with all the regions progressing, there was little the TRS alone could have done. Now comes the real muckup. The Centre announces the birth of a state in a press conference! Can you beat it? It was as if a fire was about to engulf the whole State! Well, after that the government is unprepared to move the bill through the Parliament at the forthcoming session. This has given rise to the tragic situation where Congress leaders in the State themselves are asking for a review! And now Seemandhra leaders also plan to resort to legal measures, it is said. There remain painful spasms of a host of birth pangs. As Postnoon made a sectoral analysis, division of the State would give rise to numerous problems of sharing infrastructure. All this leads one to say for sure that people are not the core issue for the Congress party. It only worries about the head count.

AND, THE CAKE Here is the icing on the cake. All political parties that had earlier given either half consent or full consent are backing out on T. It is like the parties have been game for an engagement but not for matrimony!

EDITORIALS Dictionary with a new meaning

ith Internet making print dictionaries redundant, Oxford University Press is now focusing on bilingual dictionaries and mobile applications, which will be popular with the youth. The ﬁrst Oxford English Dictionary was out in 1884. The publishers indicate that the demand for bilingual dictionaries has been growing at the rate of 20-25 per cent per year. With bilingual dictionaries in Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Kannada, Gujarati, Telugu and Bengali other Indian languages like Malayalam, Punjabi and Assamese will cater to the need to learn English in smaller towns and cities. Dictionaries are meant as a self-learning tool to learn English for various purposes including better employment opportunities and to stay in sync with the market. Oxford dictionaries are the hallmark of authoritative information, detailed attention to grammar and usage besides incorporating 'Indian English'. The publisher’s indication that they will not go for another print edition due to falling sales with rise of digitisation is a clarion call for paperback reading public.

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Flood alert is a wakeup call

n East Godavari 8,164 people have been shifted to 24 relief camps on Sunday due to Godavari river's water level of 18.95 feet at Dowaleswaram Barrage in Rajahmundry. A third warning has been issued to people to shift into camps. So far 21,11,328 cusecs of water has been discharged and a control room to collect information on water level is crucial. The need of the hour is medical teams to prevent diseases and a shift from the politics of Telangana to the basic requirements of those in relief camps.

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campus FESTIVE MOOD

ROBO FREAKS

A NEW BEGINNING

St. Francis College held investiture ceremony of the COFEE club, whose members play a pivotal role in organising the various cultural fests. ARUN DANIEL YELLAMATY arunyellamaty@postnoon.com

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UNIVERSITY OF THE WEEK

ollege festivals are major events that all collegians look forward to. Each year college students vow to make their event bigger and better than the previous year. And students of St Francis College are no exception. The college with much fanfare held the investiture ceremony of the COFEE club, Commerce Organisation for Emerging Entrepreneurs, which plays a pivotal role in organising the various cultural fests in the college. The club is the largest club in the college with close to 1,000 members and 64 committee members and all the members were in attendance for the investiture ceremony. The chief guest on the occasion was Swapna Dutt, a young Tollywood producer. COFEE members looked all charged up to take up the new challenges and organise the upcoming fests in the college. The newly elected president of BCom and a member of COFEE, Srujana Satyavada, said, “We are excited and looking forward to the fest and the other college events that we will be organising. It’s a great

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opportunity to prove ourselves.” Tripti Agarwal, the new Vice President, said, “We are planning to combine cultural fests Arthashastra and Dhrusthi into one make that the largest cultural fest in the City. Our aim is to make our fests bigger and better than all the previous years.” The investiture ceremony saw students putting up fabulous dance performances, a taste of what is to come in the future.

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FANTASY READING A book reading session for children was held at Goethe-Zentrum, Hyderabad. Die Kleine Hexe (The Little Witch) by Otfried Preubler was read out to kids who attended the event.

A new study . “How America Pays for College,” conducted by Sallie Mae, found that students from wealthier families are more likely to receive larger scholarship awards than lowincome families. The report shows that 36 percent of families with an income of $35,000 or less receive an average of $7,237 a year in scholarships while 35 percent of families making $100,000 or above receive $10, 213 a year. According to the study, colleges are doing this because they are in pursuit of prestige and revenue. Colleges are seeking brighter students and students that will be able to pay the full price.

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spotlight EXPRESSION OF ART 1

ART ATTACK

Art enthusiasts made a beeline to Ginger Lily, Radisson Blu Plaza where artist Jaya Javari's art show, An Age Of Innocence, was inaugurated. The exhibition is on till August 30. 3

1 Akansha, Rohit 2 Kalsa, Revathy 3 Jaya Javari 4 Amba 5 Boby 6 Brij Sahani 7 Dalim 8 Deepa Nath

HEALTHY LIVING

Apollo Health City hosted a medical education programme â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Changing perceptions and scenarios in liver diseases on Sunday. The one-day programme was inaugurated by Sangita Reddy, Executive Director, Apollo Hospitals.

BRIGHT AND VIVID

Fifth anniversary celebrations of Sr Krishna Silks, Secunderabad was held with much fanfare. Models showcased the newest collection at the store during the event.

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health

OXYTOCIN AND ITS BENEFITS

In a study appearing online August 4 in Nature, NYU Langone Medical Center researchers decipher how oxytocin, acting as a neurohormone in the brain, not only reduces background noise, but more importantly, increases the strength of desired signals. These findings may be relevant to autism.

WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK: AUGUST 1-7

Social taboos prevent mums from breastfeeding Convincing a new mother or a family on breastfeeding a newborn within an hour of birth or up to six months continues to be a tough task, activists and experts say. PRATHIBA RAJU feedback@postnoon.com

ge-old myths like giving honey or sacred water from the local temple to the infant still continues to be the norm. And this is followed by people living in both rural and urban areas, the experts add. Anganwadi worker Sanjana Chisti said she still gets to hear from families that the infant will not be able to digest mother’s milk. “Many families avoid giving mother’s milk to the new born infant saying they cannot digest it. For the first few days, they give water or honey. In many cases they give only sacred water from the temple,” Chisti said. It is really difficult to make people understand the importance of mother’s milk, she added. “It is very tough to convince women that colostrum (a thick yellow milk) should be given to an infant within an hour after delivery as it has immunologi-

AS PER THE NATIONAL FAMILY HEALTH SURVEY, 2005-06, ONLY 29 PER CENT MOTHERS IN INDIA START BREASTFEEDING WITHIN HALF AN HOUR OF BIRTH IN URBAN AREAS AND 21 PER CENT IN RURAL AREAS. cal properties,” said Chisti, who works in the Najafgarh area of west Delhi. As per the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), 2005-06, only 29 percent mothers in India start breastfeeding within half an hour of birth in urban areas and 21 per cent in rural areas. According to pediatrician Pragathy Varshney, she has come across many families who give their child cow’s milk and not mother’s milk. “One of the common practices in India is to give cow’s milk. Cow’s milk is not suitable for feeding infants from birth to 12 months of age,” Varshney said. Feeding cow’s milk can lead to malnutrition and at times the lactose in milk can cause diarrhoea and gas. The District Level Health Survey (DLHS) indicates that in the national capital, only 12 percent of women exclusively breastfed their children for the first six months. This is the second-lowest figure

in the country after Haryana, where it was just 9.4 per cent. As per DLHS figures, almost 35 percent of infants (in urban areas) were not breastfed within one day of birth and almost half — 48 percent —in rural areas were not breastfed within one day. According to pediatricians, in rural areas, myths and age-old traditions prevent women from breastfeeding, while in urban areas, most working mothers don’t have the time or they don’t want to have saggy breasts. “The babies’ health should be of prime importance. Working women can extract breast milk and maintain it at room temperature for nearly eight hours and give it at short intervals. It will not do any harm to the infant,” Puneet Bhat, a pediatrician with the Max Superspeciality Hospital Patparganj in east Delhi said. Experts said improper infant feeding practices can lead to malnutrition among children, while many infant mortalities happen due to diarrhoea and pneumonia. “Diarrhoea and other diseases can be easily prevented with appropriate feeding practices during the first year of life. A bottle-fed baby or an infant who is given supplementary food is more prone to die of diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections than breastfeed babies,” Bhat said. Experts also say it is not just social taboos that play a role, but the aggressive marketing by multinational companies to promote baby foods as supplementary diet also attracts young mothers. Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI), an NGO working in the area, said many baby food giants promote supplementary baby food, thus misleading mothers and undermining breastfeeding. “Like the separate fund allotted for immunisation for children, a separate fund should be allocated to boost infant feeding practices throughout the country,” said Arun Gupta, regional coordinator, International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) for Asia. “We have only guidelines for advocacy of infant and young child feeding, but a national-level authority with a separate budget allocation is a must,” he said. Gupta also said many young mothers, especially those who are working, adopt artificial feeding of

supplementary products like milk powders due to insufficiency of their breast milk for the baby. “Breastfeeding is controlled by hormones. These hormones mostly depend upon the state of mind of the mother; increasing exclusive breastfeeding rates is possible through individual or group counselling by an adequately trained worker. Only seven countries out of 51 have such a provision of trained lactation counsellors,” Gupta added. IANS

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THE PAGE DEDICATED TO WOMEN AND THE ISSUES THEY FACE ACROSS THE GLOBE

VANGUARD OF CHANGE

Nargis in awe of women scribes in war zones

argis Fakhri plays a war journalist in her upcoming film Madras Cafe, and says it was wonderful to learn about the real women who risk their lives on war fronts to get truth across to people. "I think most of us watch the news and we don't really care what's going on in the world. I learned more about these amazing women who are out in the field, in a war zone risking their life to get truth out to us," she said.

A welcome change

Changing ways

ore women than ever are the main breadwinners in their families, according to new research for a report entitled The Condition of Britain. Two million working mothers are the biggest earners in their families, a rise of 80% in the last 15 years. In nearly a third of couples with children, the mother is a breadwinner, defined by the report from the IPPRthinktank as earning as much as or more than her partner. The report shows that "maternal breadwinning" has increased for all family types, all age groups and across all income groups over the past 15 years.

witter UK said it was adding staff to help handle abuse reports. It also said an in-tweet "report abuse" button currently available on the Twitter app for iPhones would be added to the Twitter website and to platforms used on other mobile devices. This action is in the wake of a group of high-profile women being threatened with death and rape on the micro-bloggin sites.

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Whenever you connect a woman to an item girl, you imagine her with a certain body type, looking extremely sensual. It is unfair to look at a woman with only a certain body type and call her sexy.

Funnily enough, women are most critical of other women. If they hear a woman on stage being ‘rude’, they don't like it, and get cross at their husbands for laughing. Maria Kempinska,

Aishwarya Arumbakkam, Photo artist

Jongleurs comedy cub owner about women comedians

TWO STEPS BACK

UNDER ATTACK Homeless women victims of violence

new study released by the University of North Texas Health Science Center found a substantial percentage of homeless women in East Lancaster Avenue area reported being victims of physical or sexual violence, threats, stalking or verbal abuse within the past year. More than half said they had their belongings, including identification, medication andmoney, stolen from them while on the street or staying in a shelter.

THE WAY FORWARD AAUW

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is the nation’s leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls. Since our founding in 1881, AAUW members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day — educational, social, economic, and political.

Participants pose with a rainbow coloured heart shaped placard during a local annual gay pride parade in Hanoi on August 4.

Plight of women in Syria's Homs The situation of women and children in the Syrian city of Homs is rapidly deteriorating, said a statement from UNICEF.

he UN sounded the alarm about the plight of women and children in Syria's Homs, urging all parties in the conflict to enable access to some 4,00,000 trapped civilians. "The situation of women and children in the Syrian city of Homs is rapidly deteriorating," UNICEF said in a statement, adding that "new checkpoints are preventing more supplies from entering" the neighbourhood of Al-Waer. "Cannot all those involved agree that the innocent women and children in Homs, and across Syria, should be spared all possible suffering?"

UNICEF's Executive Director Anthony Lake asked. Around 4,00,000 civilians, mostly women and children, who were forced to flee other areas of Homs have sought refuge in Al-Waer, and are now "living in partially constructed buildings, schools and other public buildings", Lake said. But the situation there "has worsened, with reports of intense daily clashes, and rocket and mortar strikes causing many casualties", he added. UNICEF says it and other organisations have been distributing basic supplies and ensuring access to water for civilians fleeing the fighting. "Water and electricity is

still available for now but vegetables, milk and other essentials are in increasingly short supply. Our own emergency supplies will run out within days," said the agency. Homs has suffered some of the worst violence in Syria's 28-month conflict. The army is now pressing its campaign to uproot rebels from other areas in Homs, including the central Old City district. The UN says more than 1,00,000 people have been killed in Syria's war, most of them civilians. Millions more have been forced to flee their homes, about 75 percent of them women and children. AFP

No women on national sporting governing board

ritish Cycling is one of six national sporting governing bodies without a single woman on its board. In many governing bodies, there are women on the board, but a tiny proportion in leadership positions. Despite the stellar performance of female athletes such as Laura Trott and Gemma Gibbons, senior sporting figures say the bodies that govern their sports are failing to give women a strong enough voice.

MAKING A CHANGE ABIGAIL DISNEY

he is an American filmmaker and philanthropist known for her documentary films focused on social themes. In 2008 she launched Peace is Loud, an organisation described as "supporting female voices and international peace-building through nonviolent means." She also produced the five part series “Women, War & Peace”.

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Entertainment CINE BYTES

CLASH OF THE TITANS

SRK, VIJAY, PAWAN KALYAN

lock horns at southern box office Mahesh to celebrate his birthday in London

ctor Mahesh Babu is currently in London shooting for his upcoming movie 1 Nenokkadine. The shoot is reportedly on for 15 more days in London and the star will be forced to celebrate his birthday on the sets. The team of 1 Nenokkadine will return to India in the last week of August. Director Sukumar is canning major action sequences in the UK.

NTR Junior is one busy man

ven as the shoot of NTR Jr’s much-awaited movie Ramaiyya Vastavaiyya is in full swing, the shoot of his another movie Rabhasa has commenced. Director Santhosh Srinivas who shot to fame with Kandireega is directing Rabhasa. The ﬁlm is produced by Bellamkonda Suresh’s son Bellamkonda Ganesh Babu

Ram, Shazahn Padamsee romancing in Thailand

olmaal which is the remake of Bollywood movie Bol Bachchan is its last leg of shooting. Currently the production team is in Thailand shooting a romantic song on Ram and Shazahn Padamsee. The movie also stars Tollywood actor Venkatesh. Director Vijay Bhaskar has made a few changes in the original script to suit the Telugu audience.

ome August 9 and three superstars — Shah Rukh Khan, Vijay and Pawan Kalyan — from the Hindi, Tamil and Telugu film worlds — are set to battle it out at the southern box office. The outcome is likely to be phenomenal, say industry experts. Shah Rukh-starrer Chennai Express, which has a heavy southern flavour, Vijay’s Tamil political drama Thalaivaa and Pawan Kalyan’s Telugu family drama Attarintiki Daaredhi are releasing on the same day. “This is probably the first time in Indian cinema that films of superstars from different languages are going to vie for the top spot at the box office. It’s tough to predict the winner because expectations are riding high on all the three films,” trade analyst Trinath said. The tough competition will especially be tough in the overseas market, he said. “Chennai Express will have a wide overseas release. I was told it’s being released in countries like Morocco, Israel and even Germany, while Thalaivaa and Attarintiki Daaredhi will predominantly target countries such as the US, Britain and Australia,” he added. But, the first week of August will also see the release of Hollywood biggies such as Disney’s Planes, Neill Blompamp’s Elysium and

Thor Freudenthal’s Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. “It’s going to be neck-to-neck competition for these films. Chennai Express has already got maximum number of screens in most countries. Pawan Kalyan has great market in the US and his films usually have good openings here,” an international distributor of Indian films said. Pawan Kalyan’s Gabbar Singh, Telugu remake of Dabangg, raked in over $1 million in the US upon release in its first week. Trinath believes it’s the box office opening that will make the difference for the three big-ticket films. “We don’t know yet the number of theatres Chennai Express is being released, while Thalaivaa and Attarintiki Daaredhi are expected to release in over 1,000 screens worldwide individually. All the three actors are known for having blockbuster openings and therefore, that will be the deciding factor,” he said. Vijay’s last release Thuppakki minted `65.32 crores worldwide in its first week run at the box-office. The film, which was reportedly made on a budget of `70 crore, went on to collect over `100 crore in two weeks. Pawan Kalyan’s Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu raked in `52 crore worldwide in the first week, Shah Rukh’s Jab Tak Hain Jaan collected a whopping `120 crore in the first six days upon its release in 2012. Meanwhile, multiplexes in Chennai have opened bulk bookings for Thalaivaa and Chennai Express as well. IANS

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WOMEN POWER

My Gulaab Gang character very powerful:

CINE BYTES

Besharam trailer shown to destitute kids

he ﬁrst trailer of director Abhinav Kashyap’s next offering Besharam, about an orphan essayed by Ranbir Kapoor, was recently shown to destitute children. They are said to have extremely enjoyed it. The movie’s team decided to show the trailer to the children after it was ofﬁcially launched on July 30. Besharam also stars Ranbir’s real life parents Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh. IANS

MADHURI DIXIT A

ctress Madhuri Dixit plays a woman who forms a group of women vigilantes in Gulaab Gang and says it is a very powerful character. She plays Rajjo, who brings together a group of women who dress in pink saris and fight against injustice in the Bundelkhand region. “It’s a very powerful character. As an actress, I am fascinated by it,” Madhuri said. “The message through the movie is also very strong,” she added. She is happy to have shot action scenes for the film. “There is action in the film which I have not done so far in any of the movies,” she said. Directed by debutant Soumik Sen and produced by Anubhav Sinha, Gulaab Gang also features Juhi Chawla, Mahie Gill and Tannishtha Chatterjee in key roles. IANS

BA Pass team geared for success party

he team of B.A. Pass is set to party hard to celebrate the ﬁlm’s release. Directed by Ajay Bahl, the movie on male prostitution features actors Shilpa Shukla and Shadab Kamal. It released on Friday. If sources are to be believed, the cast will let their hair down Sunday night. IANS

Clapping in response to films matters to Milan

or some, a film’s success lies in good box office collections, and for some, it is found in critical acclaim. Filmmaker Milan Luthria, who is awaiting the release of Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara!, says it is the ringing cash registers and audiences’ whistles that matter to him the most. His film is produced by Ekta Kapoor. IANS

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CINE BYTES

JENNIFER LOPEZ to return as American Idol judge?

I’m a gym rat: Sharon Stone

ctress-model Sharon Stone calls herself a gym rat as she is obsessed with exercising. The 55-year-old admits that she spends hours in the gym lifting weights and working on her core strength. “I’m a gym rat. I do all kinds of things. I just joined a regular gym and I like to go where people really work out, and I just get into it,” femaleﬁrst.co.uk quoted Stone as saying. IANS

Charlie Sheen living-in with a porn star?

ctor Charlie Sheen is reportedly sharing his house with porn star Christina Walsh, who performs under the name Capri Anderson. Sheen, 47, was investigated by police in 2010 after Walsh had ﬁled a complaint against him. However, the actor and the 25-year-old porn star have settled their differences and are now living together. IANS

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Change attitude towards environment, urges Matt

ctor Matt Damon, who is also a fervent philanthropist and environmentalist, ﬁrmly believes that the responsibility to take care of planet Earth needs to be taken by every individual. Otherwise, future generations, will suffer a lot. “Future generations will not look kindly on us. Our grandkids and great-grandkids are going to have to live here,” the 42-year-old, awaiting the release of his new ﬁlm Elysium, said in a statement. IANS

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Chai Time

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. James Gordon

KAKURO

QUICK CROSSWORD

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.

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1 Not dormant 6 Comes down in buckets 11 Outlaw 14 Bonn waterway 15 Hindu noblewoman (Var) 16 Org for doctors 17 Morning must-have, for many 19 Obtained 20 To’s antithesis 21 Yellowstone inhabitant 22 Without without with? 23 It’s got a lot of people talking 27 Cook, as egg rolls 29 ‘What was ___ do?’ 30 Air quality concern 32 Another mild expletive 33 Acknowledge an ovation 34 Bays 36 Consign to the junkyard 39 Wings that don’t flap 41 Nosey Parker 43 Wind-up toy? 44 Blackthorn berries 46 ‘American Idol’ numbers 48 Old computer screen 49 Waller or Domino 51 Baseball catcher 52 Do-it-yourselfer’s aid 53 Blow up 56 Venture to utter 58 Prominent rock 59 Sherlock’s Blue Carbuncle, for one 60 Scottish topper 61 Former low-value coin 62 Kid’s breakfast item, often 68 Do-say connection 69 ‘Burnt Norton’ poet TS 70 Like Halloween sounds 71 Collector’s achievement

72 Come from behind 73 Dutch painter Jan

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1 Curved path, say 2 Mu ___ pork 3 Hint from a tout 4 Go ___ the deep end 5 Browser button 6 Accomplished one 7 Blockhead 8 Deprived of nutrition 9 Reacted to a haymaker 10 Some players in a kids’ game 11 Repertoire 12 Affair of the heart 13 Sharply dressed 18 The orderly universe 23 Sarcastic taunts 24 Coral ring 25 Still-life subject, often 26 Hamlet’s cousins 28 Cigarette quantity 31 Doom’s accompaniment 35 Unbroken, as a line 37 Heart chambers 38 Small-minded 40 Clapping animal 42 Type of chip 45 Walk in a crooked line 47 Air assaults 50 ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ character 53 ‘___ easy as 1-2-3’ 54 Hangman’s loop 55 Alternative to text messages 57 Actor M ___ Walsh 63 Music scale note 64 Epitome of messiness 65 Emotion of the miffed 66 Tell a tall tale 67 Burns of documentaries

Chai Time MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013 Thiruvaikumar

STAR POWER for 6-8-2013

As per Hindu panchang thiruvaikumar@yahoo. co. in, 040-27177230 / 9177596118

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

You might have to struggle hard to get work completed within the stipulated time. In certain important events, you may have to make more than one attempt to achieve success. Health problem likely; take care. Avoid emotional decisions.

STRIP TEASE AGNES

Businessmen will bounce back with their efforts. Politicians and govt officials will see a golden period. Your stock is set to pile up. Time is precious and you have to make its best use. Blood relatives will be helpful and you benefit through them.

Employees need to work hard to earn recognition and avoid the ire of superiors. Promising opportunities are likely for businessmen that should be grabbed. Unexpected tension and worries are likely, which will upset you.

Financial position is set to improve. Happy events are likely to take place at home. Children will perform well and make you proud. Written-off dues will get collected if right efforts are put. Spouse will be more affectionate towards you.

Businessmen can expect promising opportunities. Avoid boasting beyond anybody’s tolerance and also entrusting important work to others. Focusing on work is a must for employees. Colleagues will give them good support.

Success and fame are certain in all undertaken work. Parents will support you in your new efforts. Blood relatives might create trouble causing you mental depression; hence be careful with them. Some of you are likely to buy property.

Delayed works will resume and progress well. Those trying for a new job will get favourable news. Avoid unwanted expenses to lead a tension-free life. Else, there are chances of a deficit financial situation. Couples will be more affectionate.

Politicians will feel happy as their demands are accepted. Businessmen will have a flourishing time. Expenses towards good events will have to be borne by you. Unexpected financial opportunity is likely which will make you cheerful.

There will be confusion; don’t worry as situation will change soon. Stay away from blood relatives as chances are that you will land in trouble. Businessmen might be forced to raise new loans for expansion. Mother’s health is a cause for concern.

TAROT READ

Sumaa Tekur

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ARIES:

GEMINI:

The Star – You may be stuffing too many activities into one day. Spread out the work and give yourself adequate rest and relaxation, too.

LEO:

Three of Pentacles – You feel restricted by your circumstances. There are chances that you may get too close to someone and this person leads you the wrong way.

LIBRA:

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

Ace of Wands – There is a lot of creativity around you, and ideas that will make you look at life differently. Go through this intense period with openness.

SAGITTARIUS:

Ace of Cups – You are feeling very emotional about something at the moment and want to share ideas with someone who is of your intellectual level.

TAURUS:

Seven of Wands – Read the disclaimer and be sure of all terms and conditions before you sign something important. You need to know what you’re getting into.

CANCER:

The Tower – Do not share personal stuff with others unless they are very close to you and have your best interests in mind. They may do more harm than good.

VIRGO:

The Hanged Man – Set goals and make a detailed plan to reach those goals. There will be times when you doubt your own abilities. Have more confidence.

SCORPIO:

Seven of Swords – Someone in your team is saying something important. Pay attention. Although they may not say it directly, they will most likely make the point.

CAPRICORN:

The Chariot – You may go through some hassles while travelling, or trying to get to a place within the city. Use GPS or rely on directions.

PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS

PISCES:

Six of Wands – There is no point arguing with someone in your office. This person is not arguing to make a point but to irritate you. Do not let it bother you.

NUMBER GAME

Fortune – Finances matters need attention. You need to focus on safeguarding the money you have made till now. Use it in the right way.

SCRABBLE

AQUARIUS: The Wheel of

POOCH CAFE

Official journey undertaken will be successful. Marriage talks will resume and progress well. Some have good chance to undertake pilgrimage or a jolly trip with family. Separated couples likely to reunite and lead a happy life hereafter.

for 6-8-2013

Nine of Swords – You are in the process of rebuilding your reputation. You are ready to strike out on your own with new ideas and plans.

NON SEQUITUR

Those working hard will achieve set goals. Litigation in ancestral property will be over. Artists will get recognition for their exemplary performance in recent projects. Those waiting to get married will get favourable news soon.

SUDUKO

Confusion in the family will be over and happy atmosphere will prevail. Separated couples will reunite and lead a happy life. Your individuality and calibre will be exposed with the way in you execute work. Your bold decision will yield results.

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Entertainment MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013

BEAUTY SECRETS

EMMA ROBERTS in love with blonde look

ctress-model-singer Emma Roberts says she loves her new blonde tresses. She believes the look gels well with hot summer months. The 22-year-old recently added hair extensions and dyed her locks blonde. “I just love having long blonde hair again. It’s actually a fun change. I feel like with blonde hair, you can get away with going lighter on the makeup, which is so nice to do in all this humidity,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Roberts as saying. “And I can tie it back and do messy knots and all of those fun

hairstyles for summer, which are harder with shorter hair,” she added. The American Horror Story actress, who is the face of Neutrogena skincare, prefers a natural look when it comes to makeup, especially in the hot and humid weather of New Orleans, where she spent months filming her new comedy We’re The Millers. “Luckily... I like keeping it natural, or I would be in trouble in this crazy heat. For me, anything that makes it look like you don’t have makeup on is ideal,” said Roberts.

The actress also swears by a few lesser-known beauty secrets and likes to rummage through her kitchen cupboards to find some unusual home remedies. “Apple cider vinegar is great at removing any (product) buildup. I also love putting almond oil on my skin as it traps in moisture after showering,” she added. IANS

CINE BYTES Lindsay’s The Canyons not a hit with critics

indsay Lohan’s latest movie, The Canyons, is finally in theaters, though it seems the wait hasn’t endeared it to the critics. The movie has been released and unfortunately, if the reviews are any indication, the movie’s not very good. The movie currently sits with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 24%.

Teresa Palmer is engaged!

eresa Palmer is a bride-tobe! The 27-year-old Warm Bodies star is engaged to Goodbye World actor Mark Webber, her rep confirmed exclusively to E! News. Rumors flew that Webber had popped the question after photos of Palmer wearing a diamond band around her left ring finger surfaced.

James Marsden won’t appear in the next X-Men

ven with all of the old and new mutants packing their way into X-Men: Days of Future Past, there’s still one hero who won’t reappear: James Marsden’s Scott Summers. The Cyclops actor told Vulture he’s not appearing in director Bryan Singer’s new “inbetweequel”.

sports

MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013

BRIDGESTONE INVITATIONAL

RENO-TAHOE OPEN

Woods wins it for Charlie

Woodland wins in Reno

Woods was observed arriving at the course near lunchtime and walking with his four-year-old son from the players’ car park to the Firestone clubhouse. AKRON: Tiger Woods savored an eighth Bridgestone Invitational success and a 79th PGA Tour triumph Sunday. But for his young son, Charlie, it was a first chance to see his father win. Woods was observed arriving at the course near lunchtime and walking hand-in-hand with the four-year-old from the players car park to the Firestone clubhouse. And Charlie was there when Woods walked off some hours later a seven-shot winner. Woods said his daughter, Sam, is old enough to understand his profession, but for Charlie “it was the first win he’s ever been at.” “That’s what makes it special for both of us. He’s never

seen me win a golf tournament,” Woods said. “Sam was there when I won the US Open in ‘08, and she loves to look at the YouTube

He now heads to the PGA Championship favorite to finally end a five-year major title drought, the world No 1 said he won’t push his son into the game. videos and look back to Daddy.” But “Charlie’s never had that, never felt what it’s like to be with the trophy,” he added. Woods said his children

always ask “’Daddy, when are you going to win the tournament?’” “So this week was nice to be able to get the lead and I held it, and it was awfully special for me to have [Charlie] here to witness it because he understands it now,” he said. “He understands when I make a birdie, when I make par, and he understands the difference,” Woods added. “It’s awfully special to be able to share that kind of moment.” As Woods now heads to the PGA Championship a red hot favorite to finally end a five-year major title drought, the world No 1 said he won’t push his son into the game. “Charlie likes playing golf,

he likes going out there and giving it a hit,” Woods said. “It’s like what my dad did and that’s keep it fun. Go out there, no lessons, and just have fun.” But Woods said he wouldn’t put any pressure on his son. “Yes, it would be cool but I am not going to be pushing him and if he wants to do it, so be it,” he said. “If he wants to go and play another sport then that would be great, too.” While Charlie is already emulating his father, Woods was asked if the youngster might model himself on some of the US tour’s younger talents, such as Rickie Fowler. Woods laughed and said: “My kid is not going to wear a flat bill [cap].” AFP

The American earned his second US PGA title. RENO: Gary Woodland earned the second US PGA Tour title of his career Sunday, amassing seven points in the final round to win the Reno-Tahoe Open under the Modified Stableford system. Woodland finished 72 holes at Montreux Golf and Country Club with 44 points, adding a second career title to his 2011 Transitions Championship crown. “I felt like it was meant to be this week,” said Woodland, who secured a spot in next week’s PGA Championship with the victory. Jonathan Byrd totaled a single-day record 18 points in the final round to vault into a tie for second place. He finished with 35 points, alongside Argentina’s Andres Romero, who earned eight final-round points. The Modified Stableford scoring system awards eight points for double eagles, five for eagles, two for birdies, zero for pars and subtracts one point for bogeys and three points for double bogey or worse. Brendan Steele tallied three points and ended in solo fourth with 33 points. Woodland built up a sevenpoint lead through three rounds, but Byrd threatened that gap as played his first nine holes without a bogey, notching five birdies for 10 points. He gave a point back with a bogey at the 10th, rebounded with a birdie at the 11th, then earned five points with an eagle at the 13th. AFP

WASHINGTON OPEN

Del Potro fights back to win The Argentinian shook off a sluggish start to beat John Isner 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 for his third title in six years. JIM SLATER Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON: Juan Martin del Potro showed he deserves to be among the favorites to win the US Open by rallying to beat John Isner in Sunday’s final of the Washington Open. The 24-year-old top seed from Argentina shook off a sluggish start to beat the US eighth seed 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 for his third title in six years at the $1.76 million ATP and WTA hardcourt event, a tuneup for the year’s final Grand Slam event begin-

ning in New York in three weeks. “I would have to be a favorite,” del Potro said. “I’m playing well. To win tournaments and beat these guys, you have to be fit and in good condition. “But I have a few more guys playing better than me, and they have been favorites forever.” World number one Novak Djokovic, defending champion Andy Murray, five-time US Open winner Roger Federer and 2010 US Open champion Rafael Nadal were del Potro’s picks as

the players to beat at Flushing Meadows. “I would put him the smallest hair behind Djokovic and Murray,” Isner said of del Potro. “It would just be those guys right now. He would be third favorite.” In his first event since an epic five-set loss to Djokovic in the longest semi-final in Wimbledon history, del Potro showed his left knee was fine after an injury at Wimbledon. “Honestly, I’m surprised to win this tournament after a month without competition,”

del Potro said. “To win my first tournament on hardcourt, it means a lot. It gives me confidence to keep going and get closer to the top guys.” Del Potro stretched his

Washington win streak to 14 matches by adding to the titles he won in the US capital in 2008 and 2009. The last time he won in Washington he went on to win the US Open

sports

MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013

SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

US are disqualified in relay Although Nathan Adrian of the USA touched the wall first in the anchor leg, judges ruled Cordes had dived off his blocks before the first change over. win the medley relay at a world championships since 2007. Camille Lacourt, who claimed his second gold of the night after earlier winning the 50m backstroke, described France’s victory as a “magic” moment. “Tonight is gonna be crazy, sessions like this is one of the reasons why I love this sport so much,” beamed Lacourt. “Swimming with my friends and winning two golds in front of such a great audience makes my life complete. “I will remember this day, it’s really magic.” Jeremy Stravius, who swam the third leg, said the gold was not undeserved. “The Americans played with fire and it was a mistake on their behalf which made us world champions, but it was not an undeserved win,” said Stravius, who had earlier won silver in the backstroke. “I knew we had a shot at the medal after seeing the first two legs unfold.” AFP

BARCELONA: France won a shock gold in the men’s 4x100m medley relay on Sunday at swimming’s world championships as the USA were disqualified after second-leg Kevin Cordes dived in too early. Although Nathan Adrian of the USA touched the wall first in the anchor leg, judges ruled Cordes had dived off his blocks before the first change over, which saw the defending champions disqualified. “I don’t blame him, he’s a rookie, he’ll be there next time,” Adrian said after Cordes’ error. The French quartet clocked an official time of 3min 31.51sec with Australia at 0.13 back and Japan at 0.75 adrift. While the Americans were left distraught, the French were elated at their victory, their second relay title in Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi pool after winning the men’s 4x100m freestyle final last Sunday. This was the first time the American men’s team failed to

Missy makes history, as Sun shines bright With Franklin leading a group of record breaking teenage girls in Barcelona, the men have been overlooked but Sun Yang cemented his status as the standout male of the meet. KIERAN CANNING Agence France-Presse BARCELONA: Eighteen-yearold Missy Franklin became the first woman to win six gold medals at a single world swimming championships after leading the American 4x100m medley relay team to victory on Sunday. Franklin gave the Olympic champions a commanding advantage with her lead off backstroke leg and Jessica Hardy, Dana Vollmer and Megan Romano completed the job to finish nearly two seconds ahead of Australia in second with Russia in third. “I never could have expected something like this coming into the meet,” said Franklin who also claimed gold in the 100 and 200m backstroke, 200m freestyle and 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays. “It is an honour to be first woman to reach this landmark. “I have been able to prove to myself with how much I have swum and I’ve had so much fun doing it.”

It was also a great night for France’s men as they picked up two golds through Camille Lacourt in the 50m backstroke and in the 4x100m medley relay after the USA were disqualified when Kevin Cordes dove in to begin his breaststroke before Matt Grevers had completed his backstroke leg. As a result Russia moved up to take the silver medal with Japan claiming an unexpected bronze.

With Franklin leading a group of record breaking teenage girls in Barcelona, the men have been somewhat overlooked but Sun Yang cemented his status as the standout male of the meet by completing a hat-trick of longdistance freestyle golds as he claimed victory in the 1500m. The 21-year-old Chinese became the first man since Grant Hackett in 2005 to complete the treble of 400m, 800m and 1500m titles and admitted to feeling

tired as he fell way short of his world record time from the London Olympics last year. “I felt very tired during the competition, it is a very hard task to get such results and I feel very proud to have beaten such great swimmers in this competition.” Just as in London and at the world championships two years ago, Canada’s Ryan Cochrane claimed silver with Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri taking bronze.

The 21-year-old Chinese became the first man since Grant Hackett in 2005 to complete the treble of 400m, 800m and 1500m titles. There was further success for France as Jeremy Stravius claimed silver in the 50m backstroke as he and Grevers tied for second place. In one of the night’s most anticipated races, Russia’s Yulia Efimova pipped world record

holder Ruta Meilutyte to gold in the women’s 50m breaststroke with American Jessica Hardy back in third. Both women had broken the world record in Saturday’s preliminary rounds with Meilutyte’s semi-final effort bettering Efimova’s time from the heats by 0.3 sec. However, it was Efimova who came out on top in the final by just 0.07sec to claim her second gold and fourth medal of the championships after gold and silver in the 200m and 100m breaststroke respectively and bronze in the 4x100m medley relay. There was also second gold medal of the championships for Hungarian Katinka Hosszu as she came close to breaking Ye Shiwen’s world record in the women’s 400m individual medley ahead of Spain’s Mereia Belmonte Garcia and Olympic silver medallist Elizabeth Beisel of the USA. Ye could only finish seventh and admitted afterwards to feeling so nervous before the race that she almost didn’t want to take part.

URN

MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013

IT ASHES 2013

Warner revels in the taunts

Warner made 41 on Sunday before, as if pre-ordained, he was caught by Root off Bresnan. MANCHESTER: Australia’s David Warner insists he is relishing the jeers of the Old Trafford crowd that have accompanied his return to Test cricket. Warner was recalled for the ongoing third Ashes Test against England after missing the first two matches, having being banned from the warm-up games for punching England’s Joe Root in a Birmingham bar following a Champions Trophy defeat by Australia’s arch-rivals in June. It was the latest in a series of off-field incidents that have threatened to derail the lefthanded batsman’s career, including a Twitter spat with two leading Australian cricket reporters and a sledging row when he made 193 for Australia A against South Africa A in Pretoria last month. “The interaction with the

crowd has been fantastic, I just have to smile and take it,” Warner said. “Hopefully I can turn them round.” “I’m just enjoying being back in the team. All the misde-

meanours are behind me at the moment and I’m just enjoying playing cricket.” Warner made 41 on Sunday before, as if pre-ordained, he was caught by Root after hooking

Tim Bresnan. “Yeah, hooked another one to Rooty. Out of all the people in the field, it was quite comical. I’ll probably read it on Twitter a bit later. “I’m copping a little bit on the (boundary) fence but you’ve just got to keep smiling, enjoy the crowd and embrace it. “The crowd have been very vocal — they’ve been a bit quiet in the morning though, probably hung over from the day before.” Meanwhile Billy Cooper, the trumpet-player of England’s Barmy Army supporters group, added to Warner’s status as the pantomime villain by playing the theme tune from the boxing movie Rocky when the Australian was on the field. “I liked the trumpeter playing the Rocky theme song. It was actually entertaining for myself. I had a little chuckle. AFP

Clarke takes aim at umpires

JULIAN GUYER Agence France-Presse

Australia 1st innings 527/7 Dec England 1st innings 368 All out Australia 2nd innings CJL Rogers c †Prior b Broad 12 DA Warner c Root b Bresnan 41 UT Khawaja b Swann 24 S Watson c Pietersen b Bresnan 18 M Clarke* not out 30 S Smith run out (sub [TR Craddock]/†Prior/Anderson) 19 B Haddin† c Broad b Anderson8 M Starc c Swann b Anderson 11 RJ Harris not out 0 Extras (b 4, lb 2, w 3) 9 Total (7 wickets; 36 overs) 172 Bowling JM Anderson 8 0 37 2 SCJ Broad 7 2 30 1 GP Swann 15 0 74 1 TT Bresnan 6 0 25 2

Aussie Press lambaste farce The Oz Press said the Australians were given no assistance by the home team.

MANCHESTER: Australia skipper Michael Clarke and batsman David Warner took out their frustrations on the umpires as well as England’s overrate Sunday as their Ashes dreams were left on a knife-edge. Clarke was furious that the officials took the players off the field for bad light on the fourth day of the third Test at Old Trafford. Australia, 2-0 down in the fivematch series and needing to win this match to stand any chance of regaining the Ashes, were 172 for seven in their second innings — a lead of 331 runs —

CLARKE WAS ANGRY AT BEING TOLD TO GO OFF FOR BAD LIGHT IN A SITUATION WHERE ANY STOPPAGE INCREASED ENGLAND’S CHANCES OF SECURING THE DRAW. when umpires Marais Erasmus and Tony Hill called a halt at 4.26pm (1526 GMT). Subsequent rain prevented the match resuming and play was officially abandoned for the day at 5.38pm. Clarke, 30 not out, was angry at being told to go off for bad light in a situation where any stoppage increased England’s chances of securing the draw that would see them retain the Ashes. Although the floodlights were on,

SCOREBOARD

the umpires decided conditions were too dangerous to continue when it looked as if fast-medium bowler Stuart Broad was about to be brought back into the attack. “It’s now our decision,” said Erasmus, whose joint interview with Hill on Sky television was booed by angry fans when replayed over the giant screens at Old Trafford. “For a while there England’s fielders were asking about the light and the possibility when they bat.

“It was fine by then but it kept dropping, dropping, dropping. “Eventually we asked the captain (Alastair Cook) to bowl spin which eventually he decided not to. That pushed our hand because it’s a safety issue.” Clarke had a prolonged conversation with Erasmus as he and batting partner Ryan Harris stayed in the middle while England walked off. Eventually, the Australians trudged off the field.

SYDNEY: As Australia’s Ashes hopes sink in the Manchester rain, the country’s cricket writers on Monday took their frustrations out on the match officials, saying the sport continues to look foolish. “Cricket continues to make a fool of itself,” thundered the Daily Telegraph’s Malcolm Conn. “It is difficult to know why, if the captain of the batting side wants to continue, the umpires have to intervene? The bad light law must be better implemented.” The Australian’s Wayne Smith saw the irony in Australia’s plight to keep the Ashes series alive. “Australian fight, English weather. Both had been pretty much conspicuous by their absence during this Ashes series to date and how typical that they would both time their arrival for this critical moment,” Smith said. “Down 2-0 in the five-Test series and facing a seventh straight defeat that would make it officially the equal worst Australian cricket team in history, Michael Clarke’s team has dug in bravely at Old Trafford and for the first four days of the Third Test has pretty much dictated terms to England. “But just when Australia was manoeuvring into position for its final push, the weather has suddenly come over all English.” AFP

MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013

sports

NEYMAR SUFFERING FROM ANEMIA: REPORTS

Barcelona striker Neymar has reportedly been put on a special diet by the club’s medical staff to ease signs of anemia just days after he made his debut for the club, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais. The Brazilian international joined the Catalan giants in June for $75.7 million.

PRE-SEASON FOOTBALL

Jose set to clash with former club

Drogba returns to haunt Arsenal The striker scored both Galatasaray’s goals in a 2-1 win over the Gunners.

Mourinho’s Chelsea romped to a 2-0 victory over AC Milan, and set up a clash against Real Madrid.

EAST RUTHERFORD: Goals from Kevin de Bruyne and Andre Schuerlle lifted Chelsea to a 2-0 victory over AC Milan Sunday and set up a match for manager Jose Mourinho against former club Real Madrid. Mourinho, who left Real Madrid two months ago to return to the London club, and Chelsea will face off against 32time Spanish champions Real Madrid on Wednesday in Miami’s Sun Life Stadium for the

inaugural title in the International Champions Cup, an eight-team friendly tournament. Chelsea are the only side who haven’t allowed a goal in their first two matches, while Real, who beat Everton 2-1 in Los Angeles on Saturday, have a tournament-high five goals. On Sunday, Branislav Ivanovic gave Chelsea the initiative in the fourth minute, finding space on the left side near the

byline only to have his effort blocked at the right post by Milan keeper Christian Abbiati. Ivanvonic put a header wide in the 12th before Milan had its first chance, a blast by KevinPrince Boateng that went high and wide. De Bruyne had a goal disallowed 22nd for offside, but Chelsea got on the score sheet in the 29th minute when Eden Hazard found space on the left, dribbled toward the middle and passed to an unmarked Debruyne. The 22-year-old Belgian international, who transferred from Genk in 2012 but spent last season on loan at Werder Bremen, angled a shot across the goal line. It wasn’t until the second minute of injury time that Chelsea added another goal, when Victor Moses broke free on the left and sent a ball across the area to Schuerrle. The 22-year-old German international volleyed the ball low inside the right post. The match was part of a football double-header at the Meadowlands, home of the New York Jets and New York Giants. AFP

IAN WINROW Agence France-Presse LONDON: Didier Drogba returned to haunt Arsenal as the Ivory Coast striker scored both goals in Galatasaray’s 21 victory in the Emirates Cup on Sunday. Drogba made a habit of scoring against Arsene Wenger’s team when he was at Chelsea and, after appearing as a half-time substitute, his strikes overturned Theo Walcott’s first half opener and ensured the Turkish team won the four-team pre-season tournament Wenger’s men paid the price at their Emirates Stadium for failing to make the most of early pressure

and Drogba’s contribution highlighted just why Wenger is trying to add Liverpool striker Luis Suarez to his squad. With the pursuit of Suarez having so far failed despite Arsenal making a bid over £40 million for the Uruguay international, France under20 striker Yaya Sanogo is the only pre-season addition to Wenger’s squad. Earlier Porto had romped to a 3-1 victory over Rafael Benitez’s Napoli. Goran Pandev gave Napoli the lead but they were unable to hold on. Second half goals from Nabil Ghilas and Lica, either side of an own goal from Federico Fernandez, did the damage for Porto.

TRANSFER WINDOW NEWS

Man Utd have given up on Cesc: Barça director

United, who have yet to make a major signing since David Moyes succeded Sir Alex Ferguson as manager, have already had two bids for the Spanish international rejected by La Liga champions. BARCELONA: Barcelona sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta has claimed that Manchester United have abandoned their interest in Cesc Fabregas, according to reports in the Spanish media. United, who have yet to make a major signing since David Moyes succeded Sir Alex Ferguson as manager, have already had two bids for the Spanish international rejected by La Liga champions. “Manchester United were interested in the player, but they have also understood our stance

Despite claiming the first league title of his career last season, Fabregas has endured a largely frustrating time at Barcelona. that we don’t want to sell him,” the former Spain goalkeeper was quoted as saying by Barcelona based daily Sport. “They have given up on signing him.” Despite claiming the first

league title of his career last season, Fabregas has endured a largely frustrating time in the two years since he returned to the club he left as a 16-year-old to join Arsenal. His opportunities in Barca’s midfield have been limited by the presence of international teammates Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets, while his role lying behind the main striker is occupied by four-time world player of the year Lionel Messi. However, with the sale of Thiago Alcantara to Bayern

Munich and the 33-year-old Xavi expected to play fewer games this season, Zubizarreta insisted Fabregas will be a key part of the squad. “Cesc is an extraordinary player, we are counting on him. He has vision, he helps in defence, and we are not going to sell him.” Fabregas scored twice on his first appearance of the season for the Catalans in their 8-0 hammering of Santos and has travelled with the squad to take part in coaching clinics in Palestine and Israel. AFP