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CELEBRATING THE BLUE PLANET For most of us, the natural world will forever be associated with David Attenborough. The British naturalist is responsible for some of the most beautiful documentaries ever produced, and on his 87th birthday, we take a look at the movies that have carried on his legacy.

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RAHUL GIVES AP MPs All India Congress Committee vicepresident Rahul Gandhi’s decision to summon party MPs from Andhra Pradesh to meet him on May 9 has spread panic among Telugu Parliamentarians.

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS REPORT ON P7

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SET TO CALL TIME ON GLITTERING CAREER? Alex Ferguson could be about to sensationally retire as manager of English Premier League giants Manchester United, according to British media reports on Tuesday. The Daily Telegraph claimed the 71-year-old Scot was “giving serious consideration” to leaving Old Trafford and could announce his retirement before the end of the week. The newspaper did not cite sources but said that “senior figures” at the club could not be contacted to either confirm or deny the information.

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STRIFE-HIT BJP SET TO LOSE ITS SOUTHERN FORT

The scam-ridden Congress is set to emerge as the single largest party in the Karnataka state elections, the counting for which is under way. It’s leaving the ruling BJP far behind. The Congress is inching fast to the magic figure of 113 in the 223member Assembly. Janata Dal (S) led by HD Dewe Gowda is proving a surprise win. BS Yedyurappa’s KJP is poised to come cropper. As many as 16 Independents were leading and may play a key role in government formation, should the Congress fall short of numbers. P8

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

city events

MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL

Along with a gala brunch spread,plan a perfect day for mothers filled with activities like mehendi, bangle making, foot massage and salsa class at The Square, Novotel on May 12.

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES Adventure fun Summer camp in sport climbing and bouldering is being held. .Where: Adventure Club of Andhra Pradesh When: Till May 10, 6 am to 9 am

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Summer camp Tailoring training camp for children between the age group of 6 and 16 is being organised. Where: Shilparamam, Madhapur When: Till May 20, 11 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 4 pm

DINING Mango Mania An exhibition of constructivist wooden sculptures by senior sculptor and artist Aekka Yadagiri Rao are being displayed.You can ask for mango cheese cake, mango gateau, mango almond tart, mango milk shake and others. Where: Le Cafe, Novotel When: Till May 31.

Beyond our world Talk By Jayanth V Narlikar on the Amazing World Of Astronomy will be held. Where: Birla Planetarium & Science Museum (Museum), Adarshnagar When: May 8, 6.30 pm Army talk A talk by Captain Alok Bansal on Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir: The Future Trajectory. Where: Badruka PG Centre (College), Kachiguda When: May 8 from 6 pm

FULL RIDE: Women and children seen travelling by a rickshaw at Shankerpally road on Tuesday. Where: Prasads Lab Preview Theatre, Banjara Hils When: May 12, 11 am Movie matter French movie L'Arbre will be screened. Where: Alliance Francaise, Banjara Hills When: May 10, 6.30 pm

MOVIE SCREENING

GHAC and LICH is organising an informative, exciting and fun-filled workshop in social sciences and Humanities for kids. Where: Oxford Bookstore, The Park When: Ongoing, 9:30 am to 2:00 pm

Dish out A workshop on cake baking and chocolate making. Where: Colorama Printers, Secunderabad When: Till May 8, 10 am to 1 pm It’s showtime Movie Char Adhyay will be screened.

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Where: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills When: May 8, 10.30 am to 4.30 pm Potters all A pottery workshop will be held. .Where: Saptaparni (After School Activities), Banjara Hills When: Till May 11, 9 am to 11 am and 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm Dancin’ Party A dance workshop by Twist N Turns Fitness & Dance studio is on. .Where: Twist N Turns Fitness & Dance Studio, Ranigunj When: Till May 11, 10 am

WORKSHOPS

The joy of reading Oxford Bookstore in association with

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Theatre workshop One-day theatre workshop by Space Theatre Ensemble.

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Magic of dance Kuchipudi dance workshop by Veena Ganesh will be conducted. Where: Our Sacred Space, Secunderabad When: May 10 to May 12, From 5 pm

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Dosa and lassi Dosa and Lassi festival is on. Where: Quality Inn Residency, Nampally When: Till May 11, 7 pm Ocean's Eleven Eleven of the finest prawns are on offer. Where: Lacantina, Novotel, Hyderabad When: Till May 31, 7 pm to 11 pm

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CRIME

Sex racket busted, 3 held

Two women who ran the brothel explain the business equation of flesh trade to the police. Mohd SUBHAN mohd.s@postnoon.com

he arithmetic works in the organisers’ favour. Each girl enlisted for flesh trade is paid `10,000 to `15,000 a month and the ‘madams’ make `15-20,000 a day on her, as each customer is charged a minimum `5000 and each girl is supposed to entertain twothree customers a day. The organisers thus make a pile. Part of the proceeds goes to musclemen who protect the brothel and sometimes to the local police. Not all policemen, however, can be bought, and so once in a while, the sex racketeers get caught. Explaining the dynamics of flesh trade, veteran police offi-

cers said prostitution can’t be completely rooted out as long as men are ready to pay for sex. The whole ‘trade secrets’ came out with the arrest of two women who ran a brothel in a rented flat in Padmarao Nagar in Secunderabad. Identified as YB Seeshu Mani, 45, and Swarna Kumari, 24, the women AROUND THE

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told the police they made good money from the business and also paid the girls well. The police, apart from arresting the two women, seized some cash and several mobile phones. A customer, Pawan Kumar,

was also detained. According to inspector B Anjaiah, the women had begun flesh trade as Seeshu Mani’s husband, Y Srinivas, remained idle and did not earn for the family. Swarna too joined her as she could not land a job. They belong to Vijayawada. The women told the police that Srinivas went around Rajamundhry, Godavari, Machlipatnam and Vijayawada looking for poor but good looking young women who were eager to start a good life and earn in a city. Police are trying to verify the called numbers from the mobile phones to get an idea of the customers. Several bigwigs are likely to get exposed, police say.

News WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013 LAST YEAR... HERE SMS alert a success

ast year we had reported how the Madhapur police’s efforts to alert citizens on crime received good response. There was a plan to extend the system to other police stations. The SMS system was launched as a pilot project in Madhapur. This station was chosen since it has a heavy population of upper middle class people and IT crowd.

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NUMEROLOGY

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cases have been booked against drunk drivers from January this year and as many as 329 people were subjected to simple imprisonment.

Parents who lead a hand-to-mouth existence worry that if children are sent to local school, they neither learn anything of value there, nor do they learn any livelihood skills. Anand Babu, Convenor See page 10

THINGS WE 5LEARNT TODAY The column that teaches everyone something new about the way the world functions.

There could be a brothel in your neighbourhood. The police busted a sex racket in a rented apartment in Padmarao Nagar, Hyderabad. The brothel was run by two women.

Indian politicians can learn from Indonesian guv. To dismiss any claims of corruption, the rock music-loving governor has surrendered a guitar gifted to him by Metallica.

Church calls for lifting of ban on beef. The Church in Goa has criticised the HC’s ban on beef, calling it an infringement of the religious rights of minorities.

The world doesn’t walk enough. A poll suggests that 25 per cent of adults do not walk for more than one hour each week, the BBC reported.

Do ‘sleepless’ MPs have something to worry about? AP Parliamentarians have pressed the panic button after Rahul Gandhi summoned them to meet him on May 9. Some may be asked to step down.

GOVERNANCE

RTI-strong APIIC goes transparent APIIC sets an example by making its works RTI-compliant. N SHIVA KUMAR

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aving the way for greater public participation, the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC), in collaboration with RTI activist Rakesh Reddy Dubbudu, has revamped its website, which it claims is a never-before citizen-friendly portal. As Dubbudu explains, “The idea was to change the impression that the government and public cannot work together. We would like to think of this as one small step towards what we call as an active ‘public-public participation.’” The project began two months ago at APIIC’s invitation. APIIC is equally enthusiastic. “We have realised that to have public participation, we must ensure transparency. This can be done solely through educating our PIOs and assistant PIOs about the RTI Act,” says Jayesh Ranjan, vice chairman and managing director of APIIC. Information available through previous pleas will be put on the website, officials say.

ENVIRONMENT

Nearly 100 tigers now in Kerala forests

he number of tigers in Kerala’s forests has gone up to 100, officials said. “The tigers in our forests were around 70 and now the number has gone up to around 100, and similar is the increase in other wild animals,” V Gopinath, principal chief conservator of forests in Kerala, told IANS. AROUND THE

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CHANGES MADE The APIIC has ensured all records of its functioning since the last six years have been uploaded on www.apiic.in. “We have also made provisions for citizens and comAROUND THE

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plainants to register their complaints, which will be actively monitored and routed directly to the heads of the zonal offices and to the MD through email and SMS,” says Ranjan. APIIC records show that

first and second appeal rate is only eight per cent.

FUTURE IMPLICATIONS People feel it is time other departments initiated the move. “Involving the public in these activities will ease the burden on the departments. It works well both ways — for the public who can put pressure on the government and for the departments in clearing their works. Other departments like police, land revenue and civil supplies need to come forward; their current disinterest shows that they are not completely honest about their works,” says Raoji Brahmanand, RTI activist.

Forests in the Western Ghats are continuous and spread into the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Animals often move from one region to another in search of food and habitation. “The increase in the tiger numbers has been because of the contiguous nature of forests. Another aspect is the excellent protection given to the wildlife using funds from both the Centre and states,” said Gopinath. IANS

NOBLE GESTURE

Boy donates mum’s heart His mother’s death has rendered the Class VII student from Thiruvananthapuram an orphan as his father died a few years ago.

n 11-year-old boy has donated the heart valves of his mother, who died in a road accident two days ago when they were on their way to the beach in Thiruvananthapuram for a Sunday outing. Vishnu, a seventh standard student, did not hesitate when doctors at the medical college hospital here asked him if he was willing to give consent for donation of his mother’s heart valves. His mother’s death has rendered Vishnu an orphan as his father had died a few years ago. The heart valves, removed during the post-mortem at the medical college, have been handed over to Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science and Technology. According to Dr SK Jawahar

3-D living patch for damaged hearts

n a breakthrough, scientists have used human cells to grow a bio-engineered threedimensional heart muscle that acts just like natural tissue. This advancement by Duke University biomedical engineers could be important in treating heart attack patients or for testing new medicines. The “heart patch” grown from human cells overcomes two major obstacles facing cell-based therapies — the patch conducts electricity at about the same speed as natural heart cells and it “squeezes” PTI appropriately.

of Sree Chitra Institute, the valves would save lives of two heart patients. “The recipients of these

valves have not been identified yet. Before implanting it on any anybody, we have to go through proceedings such as sterilising

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tests to establish the worthiness of the valves,” Dr Jawahar said. “Through the test, we could confirm whether it is free of any infection. The whole procedure will take at least one month,” he said. The valves are now kept in the organ bank of the institute. Radhika, a government employee, was riding her scooter with Vishnu riding pillion when an auto collided with her two-wheeler, police said. Though she was rushed to a nearby private hospital, she was declared dead by the doctors. Vishnu, who suffered minor injuries, has been discharged and is now staying with his uncle in the City. PTI

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FOOD

Goa Church demands beef from BJP govt Accuses government of not acting with enough ‘urgency’ to find solution to the beef crunch in State

he Church in Goa wants the state government to put beef on the dinner tables in the thousands of Christian and Muslim homes, even as the high court last week tried to streamline slaughtering laws in the state. Fr. Savio Fernandes, executive secretary of the Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP), a social arm of the influential Roman Catholic church in Goa, has also criticised the high court’s order calling it an

POLITICS Polls to local bodies in AP soon INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.md@postnoon.com

ollowing the directive of the State government to hold the long pending local body elections as per census - 2011, the State election commission is gearing up to hold the elections in June next month. This was revealed by Commissioner of State Election Commission (SEC) P Ramakanth Reddy on Tuesday. According to Reddy, they require at least 17 days to complete the entire election process AROUND THE

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at Village Panchayat and Zilla Parishad levels. “The important and crucial thing to hold the Panchayat elections is issuing of gazette notification by the State government after finalizing reservations for SC, ST and BC communities. “Once it is done, it will become easier for us to hold the elections. We can complete the entire election process in a period of three weeks,” Reddy said. The Panchayat Raj department, which is vested with the responsibility of overseeing the functioning of village panchayats, has decided to complete the reservation process by May 18. Speaking to Postnoon Panchayat Raj Commissioner K Ram Gopal said that they would complete the determination of community wise reservation process by the end of May and hand it over to the SEC.

“infringement on the religious rights of minorities in Goa”. The High Court order has put a stop to import of bulls for slaughter into Goa, as well as a ban on killing of bovines below the age of 12, after an NGO ‘Govansh Raksha Abhiyan’ in its petition alleged illegal slaughtering of animals at the Goa Meat Complex, the only authorised facility. “The CSJP views with disappointment the failure of the government to intervene and

act with a sense of fairness and justice to the meat traders and those who consume beef as an essential part of their diet,” Fernandes said, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government of not acting with enough “urgency” to find an acceptable solution to the beef crunch in the State. Evidence submitted to the court by the petitioners partly suggested that young bulls were illegally sanctioned for slaughter by the government

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veterinarians posted at the meat complex. A three-member committee appointed by the Court to check the facts has confirmed the allegations. The stoppage of Goa’s sole legally functioning abattoir, the Goa Meat Complex, has kept beef off the counters and off the

menu in restaurants in the State. And beef on the black market has hit an unprecedented ` 350 a kg, abiout ` 200 more than than the usual rate. “The recent interim order of the High Court of Bombay in Goa has literally crippled the functioning of the Goa Meat Complex,” Fernandes has claimed. The CSJP, moreover, questions the blatant silence of the legislators on this issue. IANS

CIVIC

Encroaching nallah a hobby Which leads to flash floods during heavy rains in the City. Corporation comes up against troublesome problem of removing encroachments. MD NIZAMUDDIN nizamuddin.a@postnoon.com

NNURM (Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission) funds meant for the storm water drains continue to be largely underutilized. For instance, the most ambitious JNNURM plan to improve ‘nallahs’ is held down by the cumbersome process of land acquisition and rehabilitation of the affected people. Immediately after the flooding of few localities last year during monsoon the minister for municipal administration and urban development (MA&UD) M Maheedar Reddy gave nod improving storm water drains (nallahs). According to estimates, GHMC planned for spending `1,000 crore on rehabilitation and to provide alternative shelter to the people who ‘encroached’ nallah space. In December last, the Mayor Mohd Majid Hussain, afraid of losing out on JNNURM

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aid, made hectic inspections along with the GHMC officials. Later, the date of projections was extended to March 2014. But all his labour seems to be on the verge of collapse as drainage works are not progressing. Hundreds of encroachments are yet to be removed by the GHMC which are hindering the progress of nallah improvement. At one location, 47 encroachments are to be removed from Murki Nallah, which is only 38 per cent completed. Another location it has 730 encroachments that are to be removed, which made only 20 per cent progress. While Kukatpally Nallah, made 60 per cent progress, 72 encroachments are to be removed. The Balkapur channel has made progress of 56 per cent, which needs 453 encroachments to be cleared. The secondary storm water drains, in

zone 1 and 2 has the huge number of encroachers. With 730 encroachments only 20 per cent progress could be made. Under JNNURM, `266.47 crore was approved, but only `122.32 crore were utilized. If the GHMC is not able to avail the funds, it would be lost to it

forever by March next. According to officials, the projects under JNNURM scheme were planned way back in 2005. While most of the projects were completed, improvement of storm water drains is largely affected with land acquisition and rehabilitation.

CITY BRIEFS Lawyers seek action against Ram Charan

CPI demands probe against Minister

CM inaugurates mango mela at Nampally

JNTU inks pact with Indian Air Force

eading lawyer Sriranga Rao and several other lawyers met the City police commissioner Anurag Sharma and asked him to book a suo moto case against actor K Ram Charan, son of the union minister Chiranjeevi. They urged the commissioner to book the case for the assault on some persons by him and his security staff.

PI State secretary K Narayana has demanded that the State government should order an inquiry into the money laundering charges against primary education minister Dr S Sailajanath. Speaking to the media, Narayana asked the government to have an inquiry conducted into the roles of the minister and his friend.

hief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy yesterday inaugurated Mango Mela at the Nampally exhibition grounds. The Mela is being organised with the main objective of providing an opportunity to mango farmers to earn proﬁts by directly selling their produce to consumers instead of relying on middlemen.

Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the representatives of JNTU and Indian Air Force at the Begumpet Air Force Station. Under this MoU, the Flight Navigator Programme was conducted for the students under the aegis of the Navigation Training School, Begumpet.

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POLITICS

SUNNY FLIGHT

Indians behind Najib’s victory T

plane powered only by the sun has completed the first leg of a journey that aims to cross the US. Solar Impulse took off at dawn from San Francisco, California, on Friday and landed in Phoenix, Arizona, some 18 hours later. The craft will stop over in Dallas, St Louis, Washington DC and New York in the coming weeks. It has the same wingspan as an Airbus A340 but it weighs just 1.6 tonnes.

n Wingspan 63m (208ft) n Weight 1,600kg (3,500lb) n Covered with 11,628 solar cells n Carries 400kg (900lb) of lithium-ion batteries n Maximum cruising altitude of 8,500m (28,000ft)

TRAFFIC

Offenders may lose driving licence ALEENA ALICE Aleena.t@postnoon.com

ayward drivers beware! Licences of those who violate traffic rules more than twice will be cancelled. People who violate traffic rules once will be considered a mistake but violating the rules more than twice will be considered wilful, say Hyderabad Traffic Police. Boorishly taking wrong directions, driving while talking on cell phone, drink and drive will be considered major offences attracting severe penal-

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ties and imprisonment, police say. Intensifying the campaign against rash and negligent drivers and drunk driving, the Hyderabad traffic police have decided to take severe action against the traffic violations. The city police have already booked 4,417 cases against drunk drivers from January this year and as many as 329 people were subjected to simple imprisonment. Though so far the punishment has been detaining the vehicle, paying up a challan of `2,000-`2,500, penalty will become more severe in the coming

days, police warn. “We are in the process of data collection. Once this process is completed and we establish the identity of all the vehicle owners, and users, it becomes easy to streamline the habitual offenders. Very soon this process will be completed. Data on list of the offenders booked under drunken driving, driving while talking on cellphone will be maintained. Cancellation of the driving licence of the violators for the third time will be recommended to the road transportation authorities. This is a positive move. Once people find it impossible to get a fresh licence, they will mend their ways,” says DCP (traffic) PVS Ramakrishna. “We have realised that many people are trying to get away by using alternative routes. Now however we are keeping a tab on bylanes,” adds the DCP.

he ethnic Indian minority community in Malaysia played a major role in the victory of the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN), according to political analysts. Barisan would not have won in several areas if the ethnic Indians had not voted for the coalition comprising candidates from the Malaysian Indian Congress, which is the country's largest Indian based political party, said Sivamurugan Pandian, associate professor in Universiti Sains Malaysia. He said that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's efforts were the main reason the minority community supported Barisan which won Sunday's general elections by a simple majority of 133 parliamentary seats in the 222-seat Parliament. Pandian added that the coalition which has been in power for 56 years, won even though many from the ethnic Chinese community backed the opposition alliance led by Anwar Ibrahim.

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Malaysia has a population of 29 million people which includes 60 per cent Malays who are all Muslims, 25 per cent ethnic Chinese who are mostly Christians and Buddhists and eight per cent ethnic Indians who are mostly Hindus. PTI

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HEALTH

MILITANCY

‘Garbage man’ could extend life

gene that acts like a garbage man to clean up old material in the cells boosted the life spans of fruit flies and may offer new paths in the fight against human aging, US researchers have said. When researchers manipulated the neurons of fruit flies to contain higher levels of the gene, known as parkin, they lived 28 per cent longer and remained healthy, said the

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study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Just by increasing the levels of parkin, they live substantially longer while remaining healthy, active and fertile,” said lead author Anil Rana, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“That is what we want to achieve in aging research — not only to increase their life span but to increase their health span as well.” Parkin has been previously implicated in the development of Parkinson’s disease. People born with a mutation in the parkin gene are at higher risk for developing early onset symptoms of Parkinson’s, which typically develops in older adults.

Bomber targets Pak police station, two dead

Further study may reveal whether humans could experience a similar longevity boost from higher levels of parkin, which marks damaged proteins so that cells can discard them before they become toxic. Parkin is also thought to be instrumental in removing damaged mitochondria from the cells, the research mentions.

wo people were killed and 23 wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police station in troubled northwest Pakistan, police said. The attack came early Wednesday in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is rife with Taliban and AlQaeda-led militancy. “Two people, including one woman and a policeman, have been killed in the suicide attack near Domail police station in

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POLITICS

Rahul gives MPs insomnia

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Congress MPs from AP are to face ‘RaGa’ on Thursday, which is giving most of them sleepless nights, reports say. INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com

ll India Congress Committee vice president Rahul Gandhi’s decision to summon the party MPs from Andhra Pradesh to meet him on May 9 has caused Telugu Parliamentarians to press the panic button. The fact that the meeting follows the submission of a report by Team Rahul which visited the entire country to identify winning horses of the party at the next General Elections has heightened their worries. Team Rahul submitted a detailed report with the names of three to four winning horses in each Lok Sabha constituency on priority basis. In some places in AP, the report submitted by the team recommended to the party high command to field the sitting MPs in the next elections while at some places, it asked for replacements. Reacting on the impending meeting with Rahul Gandhi, a Congress MP from Telangana region did not hide his dejection. He said he was unlikely to

get a ticket from the party this time. “Team Rahul members visited my constituency and collected information regarding my chances of victory during the next General Elections from various sources. But the survey reportedly found that the chances of my victory are slim owing to the party’s stand on

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separate Telangana issue. I don’t know what to do to retain my seat. I will try convincing Rahul Gandhi to immediately give Telangana state to ensure the

The suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police station in troubled northwest Pakistan.

victory of the party in Telangana region,” he said. Similar is the plight of many other Telangana MPs owing to the party’s stand on the contentious T-issue. But others are not comfortable too. Many of the party MPs in Andhra and Rayalaseema region are facing a similar situation in their respective regions owing to the dominance of YSR Congress party. A senior Congress leader who was part of Team Rahul told Postnoon that most of the sitting MPs of the party are likely to be asked to either make way for young leaders to find out ways to quell anti-incumbency factor against them and ensure party’s victory. He also added that the dominance of YSRC, led by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, is likely to become an important aspect during Rahul Gandhi’s meeting in order to select leaders for the next elections. In what could be seen as an attempt to have his own team of leaders before being presented as the prime ministerial candidate, Rahul is keen to see his selections win in AP.

Bannu,” local police chief Abdul Ghafoor Afridi told AFP. A doctor at the government hospital said they received 23 people with injuries from the blast site. “Two were critical and have been sent to the military hospital,” doctor Sher Afzal told AFP. “Among the injured, there were two women, three children aged between two to five years and five policemen,” Afzal said. Afridi said seven houses and part of the police station collapsed due to the impact of the blast. Another police official said the suicide bomber attacked from behind the building as authorities had deployed heavy security measures around the police station. A bomb disposal squad official said more than 500 kg of explosives were used in the attack. The vehicle used for the attack was completely destroyed. AFP

NATION BRIEFS Notices to transporters carrying hazardous oil

Bus overturns in UP, two killed

Brutal attack on elderly Sikh in US

Local BJP leader murdered in UP

Trinidad regrets incident involving Indian envoy

otices have been issued by the Goa State Pollution Control Board against 13 transporters carrying hazardous oil for non-submission of details about their collection and disposal of waste. Concerns were raised that transporters might have been dumping the hazardous oil mid-sea, resulting in oil tar balls ﬂowing to the coast.

wo persons were killed and around a dozen others injured when a bus overturned after hitting a motorcycle near Kailguan town in UP, police said today. Charan Singh (32) and Jagdish were killed when their motorcycle was hit by the bus on Hisar road yesterday, deputy superintendent of police Arun Kumar Dixit said.

S police have arrested a 29year-old in connection with a brutal Sunday morning attack with a steel rod on an 81-year-old Sikh man outside the Nanaksar Sikh gurdwara in southwest Fresno in central California. Gilbert Garcia reportedly beat Piara Singh in the head and body. Whether it was a hate crime remains to be determined.

local BJP leader was killed allegedly by an advocate and his aides due to old enmity, police said today. The body of Rajendra Mishra, 65, was found in front of Rupadeeha police station on the Indo-Nepal border yesterday, they said. Mishra's brother lodged an FIR against an advocate, his brother and a woman accusing them of poisoning him.

ndian High Commissioner to Trinidad & Tobago Malay Mishra has said he would prefer to put behind him an "incident" at the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad last week when an immigration ofﬁcer misbehaved with him, leading to the country's foreign minister expressing regret and promising corrective action.

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KARNATAKA ASSEMBLY POLLS

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Cong sweeps Karnataka, Yeddy current shocks BJP It was the JD(S) of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda which was the surprise package of the polls, faring way better than expected.

he BJP was today decimated in the Karnataka Assembly elections with Congress set to form a government, may be on its own, wresting power after a gap of seven years. The BJP’s southern fort where it came to power for the first time in 2008 crumbled and the party may be pushed to the third position behind JD(S). Exploiting the split in BJP and the spoiler’s role played by former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, the Congress was ahead in 93 of the 223 constituencies that went to polls and has already won 11 seats. The JD(S) led by H D Deve Gowda won two seats and was ahead in 39 seats while the BJP bagged one and is leading in 35 seats. The fledgling Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) floated by Yeddyurappa after his exit from BJP was leading only in more than ten seats while independents and others were ahead in 15 seats. In the elections five years ago

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when BJP stormed to power for the first time in a southern state on its own, the party had won 110 seats against Congress’ 80 and BJP’s 28. In the 224-member house, 113 seats would be required for majority. Polling was held in 223 segments, with the one i n Periyapatna

PARTY LEADS/WON CONG 120 JDS 43 BJP 33 KJP 11 OTHERS 16 (Figures at the time of going to press)

BS YEDDYURAPPA

Parliament disrupted as BJP calls for PM’s resignation

arliament was disrupted Wednesday as the BJP persisted with its demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation over irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks, and also demanded that ministers P.K. Bansal and Ashwani Kumar step down. The Lok Sabha was adjourned minutes after the day’s proceedings began at 11 a.m. as Bharatiya Janata Party members advanced to the speaker’s podium, demanding the prime minister’s resignation. It also demanded the resignation of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Bansal. Speaker Meira Kumar’s efforts to calm BJP members proved futile, and she adjourned the house till 12 noon. The scene in the Rajya Sabha was similar, with BJP members shouting slogans against the prime minister. Amid the pandemonium, Chairman Hamid Ansari adjourned the house till noon. Both houses have seen repeated disruptions by opposition parties over the allocation of coal blocks and 2G spectrum. IANS

in Mysore district put off to May 28 following death of BJP candidate. Significantly, KJP has damaged the prospects of the BJP in many constituencies, eating into its votes. The Congress appeared set to for a clean sweep in the coastal Dakshina Kannada district, a traditional BJP stronghold. But it was the JDS of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda which was the surprise package of the polls, faring better than expected. In Bangalore urban areas, which has a total of 28 seats, the Congress was ahead in 11 and the BJP in eight. PTI

HEALTH

Quarter of adults walk only an hour a week

poll for the walking charity the Ramblers suggests 25% of adults walk for no more than one hour each week, reported the BBC.The YouGov survey, which polled 2,000 adults across UK about walking habits, found another 43% reported walking for less than two hours a week. Government guidelines suggest people should do 150 minutes of “moderate” physical

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activity each week. The Ramblers, which is promoting a “Get Walking Week” from 4-11 May, said there was already research showing that two thirds of adults in the UK took too little exercise.

Despite the low levels of walking reported, nearly all of those surveyed - 93% - agreed walking was a good form of exercise. Benedict Southworth, chief executive of the Ramblers, said: “Walking is one of the most accessible and achievable ways to truly conquer this inactivity pandemic in Britain and we need to get started now.” AGENCIES

ASI visits to Naya Quila makes ryots tizzy Golf course by APTDC in the historical fort seeks to mar the beauty, say farmers. Md NIZAMUDDIN nizamuddin.a@postnoon.com

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e have been sandwiched between the farmers and the APDTC”, says ASI official, who made a visit to Naya Quila with the purported objective of reshaping the water streams inside the fort. Officials of Archaeological Survey of India, the GHMC and the APTDC inspected the precincts of Naya Quila at Golconda. While the farmers, who have pattas to farm inside the fort are sceptical about the officials’ visit, APTDC too have their reservations about ASI designs. “We were never consulted,” complained a farmer. AROUND THE

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It has been one year since the golf course inside the precincts of Nala Quila was thrown open. Nearly half of the area, including the famous ‘Hathika Jhaad’ has been converted into new golf course. Fencing by APTDC of its property is seen to have marred the tourism potential. Half of the Quila is under the possession of farmers, who used to harvest paddy and are now forced depend on the wild grass grown in their patta lands. According to farmers, who have filed a case in the High Court, the APTDC is trying to take away their lands. “There are about 40 families who depend on these fields. Now we are being squeezed from leave our lands”, says Afzal Mohammed. Babji Rao, assistant archaeologist, ASI who inspected the site tried to convince the farmers that his visit was in lines with protecting the monument. “If the water flowing from this site is given a right way, then we can protect the remains,” said Rao.

Half of the Quila is under the possession of farmers, who are now forced depend on the wild grass grown in their patta lands.

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Cops probe Ohio kidnap case Cleveland police spokeswoman Jennifer Ciaccia told CNN that officers plan to interview the suspects on Wednesday and would be brought before a judge. MIRA OBERMAN feedback@postnoon.com

S police descended on an unremarkable home in a working class neighbourhood of Cleveland on Tuesday after three women who had been missing for around a decade were rescued from kidnappers. Three brothers have been arrested in the Midwestern city after one of the captives managed to alert a neighbour, who broke down the door to free her and the six-year-old daughter she apparently bore as a prisoner. Police responding to a desperate 911 emergency call found two more women in the modest detached home with American and Puerto Rican flags on the porch. All had been reported missing in separate incidents around 10 years ago. Journalists and local residents descended on Seymour Avenue, where officers had sealed off the property with barriers and crime scene tape, astonished that anyone could have kept such a crime quiet for so long. The women — Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23, and

The house of Amanda Berry’s sister, one of the three women held captive for a decade, stands decorated by well wishers. AFP

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cious about Goa, as supplies have become uncertain. “We are on the brink of losing China market. If the ban continues even for little more time then we will lose it forever,” Auduth Timblo, Chairman, Fomento Resources, one of the biggest exporters of ore from Goa, told PTI.

2003 and 2004 but were found together in the home of 52-yearold Ariel Castro. Castro and his brothers — Pedro, 54, and Onil, 50 — have been detained. Police mug shots revealed them to be thick-set men with gray beards. “For Amanda’s family, for Gina’s family, for Michelle’s family, prayers have finally been answered,” FBI special agent Steve Anthony told reporters. “The nightmare is over. These three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of survival and perseverance. The AROUND THE

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healing can now begin.” Cleveland Director of Public Safety Martin Flask said police had not been alerted to anything untoward happening at the house on Seymour Avenue. Deputy police chief Ed Tomba said: “Obviously, there was a long period of time where nobody saw them. So we have to wait until we interview them and hopefully they are going to tell us exactly what went on in there.” AFP

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Miners wary of losing China deals G oa’s iron ore exporters are wary of losing the promising China market due to the prolonged ban on ore exports following the Supreme Court order. According to exporters, China, which traditionally bought state’s low grade ore, usually blended with the high grade quality, has become suspi-

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Michelle Knight, 32 — were freed on Monday night and examined at a local hospital before being released to their families, who staged joyous homecoming parties. Cleveland police spokeswoman Jennifer Ciaccia told CNN that officers plan to interview the suspects on Wednesday and that they should be brought before a judge to face charges later in the day. “This is just the tip of the iceberg. This investigation will take a very long time,” she said, refusing to comment on reports that the women had been chained up in the house, had been beaten and had lost multiple pregnancies. Relatives of the missing women were shocked and overjoyed. “She’s like my best friend. I’m glad she’s home,” Ricardo DeJesus, brother of Gina DeJesus, told CNN, vowing to never let his sister out of his sight again. “It is a miracle by God that she came home. That’s all I can say.” Police confirmed that Berry has a six-year-old daughter, apparently born while she was in captivity. The three Ohio women were abducted separately in 2002,

“Several new countries arrive into competition, its like a wave,” Timblo said. Before the apex court ban on export and mining activity, Goa’s 90 per cent ore was exported to China, a market for low grade – 46 Fe to 59 Fe — content ore. The state’s entire major mineral ore extraction activity was fuelled by demand from China. Before the ban, India’s exports to China were 100 million metric tonnes annually, which has now plummeted to less than 10 MMT per year. Last year, mining operations in all the 90 mines in Goa were ordered to be halted by the Supreme Court on the basis of the Justice MB Shah Commission report which estimated a whopping `35,000 crore loss to the exchequer due to illegal mining in the last 12 years. PTI

Triple delight for City M Vishwa Virinchi of Sri Chaitanya Narayana IIT Academy secured 345 out of 360 to top the country. POSTNOON NEWS feedback@postnoon.com

he AIEEE which was replaced by the JEE (Main) saw city boy top the country. M Vishwa Virinchi of Sri Chaitanya Narayana IIT Academy secured 345 out of 360 and topped the country. The second and third ranks were also bagged by students from the city. Owais Khan Mohammed from Sri

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Chaitanya Narayana IIT secured 341, RJ Vishal from FIIT-JEE scored 340 and stood second and third in the country. The toppers now aim of topping the JEE (Advance) which is to be held on June 2. Conducted by the Central

M Vishwa Virinchi (right) and Owais Khan Mohammed.

Board of Secondary Education, JEE (Main) 2013 scores is an eligibility test for the JEE (Advance), which the candidate has to take if he/she is aspiring for admission to the undergraduate programmes offered by the 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian School of Mines Dhanbad. The

new format was a part of HRD Ministry’s decision to have a single engineering entrance examination for all technical institutes across the country. Under this format, 40 per cent weightage will be given to Class XII results after the normalisation of marks of the state boards.

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INDONESIA’S ANTI-GRAFT DRIVE

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Guv surrenders Metallica guitar

Bringing children back to school

The guitar was the first gift Widodo had received since becoming governor.

he heavy-metal-loving governor of Indonesian capital Jakarta has surrendered a guitar that was a gift from US band Metallica to anti-corruption authorities, an official said Tuesday. A beaming Joko Widodo appeared on TV last week strumming the maroon bass guitar gifted to him by Metallica’s Robert Trujillo, which was autographed and bore the words “Giving Back!.. Keep Playin’ That Cool Funky Bass!”. But the powerful Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said that Widodo, widely considered clean in a notoriously graftridden country, had now handed the gift to them. “We will check if there is any conflict of interest or if there was an exchange of favours,” commission spokesman Johan Budi told AFP. “The screening process takes up to 30 days, and after that we will decide whether to return the guitar to him or confiscate it.” During the TV appearance Widodo, an anti-establishment figure who was elected in September, said he was a huge

fan of Metallica, whose hits include Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters. He also listed Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Napalm Death as among his favourite bands. His spokesman Eko Hariadi said the guitar was the first gift Widodo had received since becoming governor, he had handed it over voluntarily to be checked and there was no conflict of interest. “The governor loves rock music. So he was certainly happy AROUND THE

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to receive it, it's like getting a tennis racket from Boris Becker,” the spokesman told AFP, referring to the German tennis great. “To him, it was a souvenir and there was no exchange for favours.” Corruption remains rampant in Indonesia, particularly among public servants, and the country last year slid to 118th of 176 countries in Transparency International's annual graft index. AFP

With a belief that a teacher’s role extends beyond school, the forum is pushing for ‘non-negotiables’. PADMINI C padmini.c@postnoon.com

olicies that were far removed from the practicalities of the classroom lead to the formation of a group that is today known as the Teachers Forum for Child Rights. What started as a handful of like-minded individuals coming together to debate child development, protection and empowerment in 1996 has, 17 years later, transformed into a forum for over 3,000 government teachers in schools across 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh today. With a belief that a teacher’s role extends beyond the school, these members have been campaigning for “non-negotiables”, such as eliminating child labour, corporal punishment, child marriages, among others. “We saw that teachers were being used in State-activities such as surveys and elections but not in any activities furthering the cause of child rights. So we decided to take it upon ourselves to bring attention to the issues that were cropping up in classrooms but ignored in government schemes,” explains N Janardhan, a founding member. Working alongside the department of social welfare, they started their activism with the ‘Back to School’ campaign and soon were tackling issues of out-of-children, over-age children, children with special needs, slum children by working out practical solutions such as alternative schools, rolling admissions, summer schools, bridge courses, teacher to teacher motivation and so on. But the challenge that they still grapple with, then and now, remains the quality of education

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“They don’t want to send their children to school because they don’t trust our schooling. Parents who lead a hand-tomouth existence worry that it’s a lose-lose situation if the kids are sent to the local school because neither do they learn anything of value, nor will they learn any livelihood skills. So, if we can change that and provide them some guarantee that their children will learn and benefit from the education we give them, they’ll go to great lengths and make any sacrifices to send them to school,” says Anand Babu, convenor, Prakasam district. Even with massive national initiatives such as the Sarva Shikshya Abhiyan, ICDS, Right to Education, while the numbers

may have improved, the quality of learning still continues to be dismal. The latest Annual Status of Education Report revealed that the learning outcomes of government school children across the nation were on a significant decline. But ignoring the need for community mobilisation and teacher-training programmes, the government has been rolling out policies worth thousands of crores which experts say are more veiled bribes than incentives. Even these have not been implemented and the money is not being spent on real requirements that are most necessary for children and teachers at the district/mandal/village levels. The forum, which has been monitoring micro-level checks and recording data at the village level on its own has enough data to contradict the government’s trickle-down promises. Tatagiri Asheerwadam, a senior member of the forum, said, “If there are buildings, there are no toilets. If there are toilets, there is no one to clean them. If there are cleaners, there’s no running water. When we have that, we don’t have drinking water. How would anyone want to be in an environment like this, let alone come to learn, or to teach?” However, TFCR has a plan. “Instead of spending their time writing/fudging reports like they’re doing now, their spare time should be used for training. But what they need most is to be motivated,” says Asheerwadam, who has just enrolled his own children in a government school. In the end, TFCR’s aim is to return to where they first started, with every child ‘back to school’ and happy.

WORLD BRIEFS Pak peacekeeper killed in DR Congo ambush

24 dead in Mexico gas tanker truck blast

Texas executes drug dealer for killing rival

Murray was unsuitable to be Jackson’s doc

Two adrift in the Pacific for four weeks rescued

ttackers killed a Pakistani peacekeeper in an ambush Tuesday in DR Congo. The attack was staged in South Kivu province on a UN mission military convoy "by unidentiﬁed assailants."Various armed groups operate in South Kivu but it is not a stronghold of the M23 group, which launched an attack against DR Congo forces.

gas tanker's container came loose and exploded on a highway north of Mexico City on Tuesday, landing between homes and setting ﬁres that killed at least 24 people and injured dozens. The blast rocked the suburb of Ecatepec before dawn, injuring at least 36 people and damaging some 15 cars and 40 homes, ofﬁcials said.

drug dealer convicted of gunning down a rival in Texas 10 years ago was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, US authorities said. Carroll Parr, 35, was found guilty of shooting dead a fellow drug dealer outside a store in Texas in 2003. He was declared dead at 6:32 pm (1132 GMT) at Huntsville Prison.

ichael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray was clearly a "mismatch" unsuitable to care for the star on his doomed 2009 tour, with no expertise on drug addiction or insomnia, an expert witness said Tuesday. Promoters AEG Live failed to spot a string of "red ﬂags" that should have made them refuse to hire Murray.

wo fishermen from Kiribati were rescued after surviving almost four weeks adrift in the Pacific, surviving on raw fish and rain water, a report said Wednesday. An American Samoa-based fishing vessel "Pacific Princess" picked up the pair almost 700 kilometres from their island home, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

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ITALY

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Port accident leaves 3 dead Rescue workers dived into the inky waters around the port of Genoa in a frantic night-time search to find around 10 people believed to be missing. GENOA: Three people died and several others were missing in the water in the port of Genoa on Wednesday, after a container ship smashed into a control tower in a night-time accident which revived painful memories in Italy of a deadly cruise ship disaster last year. Part of the tower in which about 14 people were present at the time of the accident crashed into the water. One of the victims was reported by some media to be a woman in her 30s, while the other two were male. Rescue workers dived into the inky waters around the port — one of the busiest in Italy —

The accident, which took place at around half past midnight, spooked Italians still reeling from the Costa Concordia night-time shipwreck off Giglio island in January 2012 which left 32 people dead. people dead. Indictment hearings against six suspects in the cruise liner disaster began in Italy on April 15, with local authorities at the site of the shipwreck requesting compensation of more than 80 million euros ($105 million). The main suspect is captain Francesco Schettino, who is accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, misinforming the coast guard after the crash and abandoning the ship during the rescue. Emergency services at the scene in Genoa said it was not clear whether some of those still missing were trapped within the lift inside the tower.

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in a frantic night-time search to find around 10 people believed to be missing. Six others were reported seriously injured. An employee of the Messina Line company based in Genoa which owns the Jolly Nero confirmed that "there was an accident when the ship was leaving the port. It ran into the tower, but we don't know why at this point, nor how many people are hurt." The accident, which took place at around half past midnight (2230 GMT Tuesday), spooked Italians still reeling from the Costa Concordia nighttime shipwreck off Giglio island in January 2012 which left 32

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T Rescue workers inspect the scene near a damaged control tower (right) in the port of Genoa early on May 8, 2013, after a container ship smashed into the tower leaving at least three people dead. AFP/GIUSEPPE CACACE

he Italian container ship is almost 200 metres (655 feet) long, 30 metres (98 feet) wide, and has a gross tonnage of over 40,500. It was bound for Naples.

Constable held for cheating Mohd SUBHAN Mohd.s@postnoon.com

constable who promised to marry a divorcee, six years older than him, and made her pregnant has been put behind bars after he refused to keep his word. Constable Srinivas is said to have befriended one Aruna who was divorced and was hoping for a remarriage. He is alleged to have given her false promises of marriage but when he realised she is pregnant, he denounced her and refused to marry her, the Panjagutta police said. AROUND THE

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The hapless woman approached Panjagutta police and with telltale evidences argued the man had cheated her. Panjagutta police registered a case and ordered his arrest. Sub-inspector P Jawaharnath who made the arrest said Srinivas, 26, is a resident of MS Maktha of Somajiguda and is a native of Nalgonda district. He was a constable with the special protection force. He has been on secretariat duty for the past couple of years.

CHINA

‘Seismic’ row over dogs

Chinese city is using dogs to predict earthquakes, an official said on Tuesday, after state-run media reported that neighbours were complaining of nightly false alarms — in the form of barking. AROUND THE

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China is regularly hit by seismic tremors. Around 200 people were left dead or missing by a quake in Sichuan province last month, and hundreds of thousands have been killed in major disasters in the past. The earthquake authority of Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province in the east, keeps dogs

since they will "act abnormally when an earthquake is coming", sometimes up to 10 days in advance, an official surnamed Song told AFP. The bureau used the dogs at the request of the provincial government, he added, saying that chickens and ducks could be effective as well. But neighbours are complaining

on social media about the animals' nightly howling, according to the official provincial news website Dajiang. "The compound of the Nanchang earthquake authority has I don't know how many dogs, every night at 11pm they start barking over and over," it quoted one as saying. Song said the dogs had now been sent to a lower-level earthquake bureau in the city but denied they had been barking. However Dajiang quoted him as saying the dogs could be muzzled to accommodate residents' concerns. Asked if that would stop them carrying out their predictive function, he agreed and said he would ask his boss what to do about that, it reported. AFP

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HOLIDAY TIME

Vacation vocations Summer holidays are here and before your kids complain of how bored they are, send them to some of these camps being held at Bal Bhavan in Public Gardens, Nampally. N SHIVA KUMAR

ON THE HIGH SEAS ECLIPSE

Giants of the sea

Hyundai Heavy Industries said it had won a $700 million deal to build the world’s largest container ships for China Shipping Container Lines. Here are some others that are bigger, longer and heavier. Roman Abramovich’s Eclipse is the world’s longest operating private yacht at 162.5 meters, with a gross tonnage of 13,000 tonnes.

50 LET POBEDY

The world’s largest nuclear icebreaker is the 50 Let Pobedy. It's 159.60 meters long and GT

is 23,439 tonnes. Trust this monster to ram its way through ice sheets.

tonnage of 225,282 tonnes and a length of 362 meters. Allure of the Seas is technically longer by 50 millimeters.

YAMATO

The WWII-era Japanese Yamato was the biggest battleship ever made, displacing 71,659 tonnes and stretching 256 meters, but the proposed Nazi Schlachtschiff H-44 would have dwarfed it. 131,000 tonne displacement and 345 m long.

ALLURE OF THE SEAS/OASIS

Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas/Oasis of the Seas twins are the largest passenger ships ever constructed, with a gross

458.45 meters. It was so big, it couldn't pass through the English Channel. Definitely she needs to be given a wide berth.

They're too big to be profitable, and are now just floating storage platforms.

SEAWISE GIANT

Ordered in 1974 and scrapped in 2010, the supertanker Seawise Giant was the longest, heaviest ship ever made at 260,941 gross tonnage and

FSO ASIA/FSO EUROPE

The FSO Asia/FSO Europe twins are TI-class supertankers and at 236,638 gross tons and 380 meters, they are the largest existing ships in the world.

PIERRE GUILLAUMAT

The Pierre Guillaumat supertanker was arguably larger than the Seawise Giant, at a massive 274,838 gross tonnes. It was only 414.23 meters long, and frankly, it was just as oversized as any other gigantic supertanker. It was too big for the Panama or Suez Canals and had to moor at offshore oil rigs.

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PANAMA IN ENERGY CRISIS

Up against the wall in a drought-sparked energy crisis, Panama said on Tuesday it would shut high schools and universities for three days, in a desperate bid to reduce power usage.

WTO LEADERSHIP CHANGE

Brazil’s Azevedo is WTO boss Azevedo will face the tough task of trying to breath life into the WTO’s stalled ‘Doha Round’ of trade liberalisation talks, launched in 2001. JONATHAN FOWLER Agence France-Presse

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s Brazilian Roberto Azevedo prepares to take the helm of the WTO, analysts say his victory in its leadership race is a clear sign of the clout of emerging nations.He is also seen as a having the potential to revive stalled World Trade Organization talks which aim to harness global commerce to give a boost to developing countries. Career diplomat Azevedo, who is Brazil’s WTO ambassador, is poised to be confirmed as the successor of Frenchman Pascal Lamy as director general of global commerce’s rule-setting body. Observers underlined the importance of emerging giant Brazil winning. “Both for symbolic and tactical reasons, this is a great

he Doha Round, launched at a summit in Qatar in 2001, aims to open markets and remove trade barriers such as subsidies, excessive taxes and regulations, in order to harness international commerce to develop poorer economies. But the concessions needed have sparked clashes notably between China, the EU, India and the United States. As Brazil’s litigator, Azevedo locked horns with the European Union and United States over their subsidies for aircraft makers and cotton producers, although Brazil has also been accused of protectionism by trade partners.

choice,” said Kevin Gallagher of Boston University. Azevedo will face the tough task of trying to breath life into the WTO’s stalled “Doha Round” of trade liberalisation talks, launched in 2001.

RESTRUCTURING Pressure builds to split JPMorgan top roles

leading shareholder advisory group Tuesday urged JPMorgan Chase investors to end chief executive Jamie Dimon’s tenure as chairman and fire a majority of the company’s board after a $6.2 billion trading loss. Glass Lewis became the second major proxy adviser in recent days to endorse splitting the chairman and chief executive roles at JPMorgan in the wake of the bank’s “London whale” derivatives debacle. ISS Proxy Advisory Services called for that action

last week. CalPERS, which manages California government retirees accounts, also said Tuesday that it would vote to split the bank’s chairman and chief executive roles. The pressure came ahead of JPMorgan’s annual meeting May 21 as questions about Dimon’s fate hang over Wall Street. After leading JPMorgan through the 2008 financial crisis in comparatively good shape, Dimon’s star has dimmed after the multi-billion-dollar loss in early 2012 by a London-based unit trading complex derivatives for the bank’s own book. AFP

“Given that the WTO is a ‘one-country-one-vote’ institution, Western supporters figured that a deal endorsed by Brazil would spark the backing of BRICS and other emerging market and of developing coun-

tries,” said Gallagher. “Brazil now must press the West to make sure that the first tact in any new round of trade talks eliminates distortionary policies in the industrialized world, like agricultural subsidies,” he added. Speaking before Tuesday’s news emerged, Azevedo told AFP he was convinced he had the mettle to reboot the WTO. “The multilateral trading system is weakened by a complete paralysis in the negotiations,” he said. “It’s about making the system respond to the realities of today’s world... The only way to do this is to promote trade and trade liberalisation as an important component of development policies,” he added. “We’re not going to do that unless we unclog the system,” he insisted, adding that a “modulation of the ambition” was needed to allow progress.

Azevedo’s rival final-round candidate Blanco is a 62-year-old economist with the reputation of a trade heavyweight. He was Mexico’s negotiator for the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, served as a minister of commerce and also boasts solid private sector credentials. He and Azevedo repeatedly flagged up their broad support across a range of nations and economic levels, from the poorest to the richest, and had pitched a similar vision for breaking the Doha deadlock. But 55-year-old Azevedo’s insider status as an experienced negotiator and consensusbuilder at the WTO appeared to have clinched the contest. He has been Brazil’s WTO ambassador since 2008, making him well placed to navigate the system to try to clear the Doha logjam at a crunch summit in Bali in December.

AVIATION

Branson open to total sale of Virgin’s Australia arm

irgin Group chief Richard Branson has aired the possibility of selling his entire stake in budget carrier Virgin Australia, saying the airline’s branding is more important to him than ownership. Branson, who founded Virgin Australia as a rival to Qantas in 2000, sold a 10 per cent share to Singapore Airlines last month, leaving him with 13 percent. The British billionaire refused to rule out selling his remaining stake, telling reporters “we will see” when asked about his future plans for the Australian carrier. “I’m not too worried about

whether we sell down most of our stakes,” Branson said. “The 13 percent is pretty strategic in that it could be very valuable to a player one day, but it’s not that important from the

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t is close to midnight and Imelda Marcos is dancing in a trademark pink butterfly gown at a small Philippine town fiesta with adoring voters who still revere her dead dictator husband. At an age when many others are in nursing homes, the tireless 83-year-old is on the campaign trail, aiming to keep her seat in parliament in next week’s midterm elections and continue her family’s remarkable political resurrection. “It’s funny because the older I become the more committed I am and the more I feel I can do it,” Marcos told AFP on the weekend from the family’s ancestral home in the rural north of the country before heading to the nearby fiesta. The widow of Ferdinand Marcos is seen as a certainty to win after first being elected to Congress in 2010, representing half of Ilocos Norte province whose voters have stayed loyal to the family throughout decades of tumultuous politics. But the matriarch has eyes on a bigger prize -- a return to the presidential palace as first mother via her son, Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, who is sitting comfortably in the Senate and eyeing a 2016 run for the top job. “You always have dreams for your children, and the more they can serve the people, the better,” Marcos said when asked about her charismatic son’s wellknown presidential ambitions. Ferdinand Jnr, popularly known by his nickname, “Bongbong”, appears well-positioned for a presidential run after one in three voters nationally elected him to the senate for a six-year term in 2010.

Start-ups face hiccoughs in land of entrepreneurs THE INSIDE STORY

CS Lewis English author

Bringing back days of glory

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS

Would the sympathy evoked by Imran Khan’s fall during an election rally turn the tide for him? He has the charisma to pull crowds to his rallies. We need to wait and see if the accident turns the tide for him.

Salil Panchal

t is seen as a land of entrepreneurs, economic growth and huge business potential, but India appears to be failing its promising startup companies which are struggling to find investors. While there is no lack of ideas among the country’s vast young population, funding is declining from venture capitalists and rich “angel” investors, as they are known, who are often crucial to a young firm’s success. “Risk-taking appetite from investors is low,” said Internet entrepreneur Nameet Potnis, who is trying to address the problem by setting up Nurtured.in, a platform to connect startups with early-stage investors. “It is easy to set up an online business in India but very difficult to do business,” he told AFP. Three decades after businessman N.R. Narayana Murthy and six other Indians sat around a kitchen table and formed leading IT outsourcer Infosys, the country is yet to create a favourable business environment for new entrepreneurs. Just five percent of thou-

sands of Indian startups get funds from sources external to friends and family, analysts say. It is one of the toughest countries in the world for a startup to flourish, according to a 2012 report by US-based research firm Startup Genome. Venture capitalists invested $1.09 billion through 222 deals in 2011, but this dropped by 30 percent to $762 million through 206 deals in 2012, according to researchers at Venture Intelligence, based in southern Chennai city. The decline could not come at a worse time for the young Indian professionals and business graduates who are risking branching out on their own, after losing or quitting lucrative jobs amid the global downturn. India’s own economic growth slowed to an estimated 5.0 percent for the fiscal year that ended March, its slowest rate in a decade, but that has not deterred many youngsters from trying to turn their ideas into businesses. Some of India’s well-established startups include Nasdaqlisted online travel firm makemytrip.com, shopping website Flipkart and digital entertainment company Hungama. In recent years, ventures have branched into areas as varied as pet care, gaming, restaurant guides and e-learning, and the startup bug is spreading into

smaller Indian cities. “More companies are coming up and not that much... money is being put in,” said Sampad Swain, an entrepreneur who founded “Instamojo”, which helps to sell digital downloads. Jubin Mehta of Yourstory.in, an online site which tracks startups and entrepreneurs, said venture capitalists tend to look over 200 ideas before investing in one. “Roughly 500 startups come up each month. And less than five percent -- only about 25 -receive external funding,” he said. Kulin Shah, an entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, said angel investors have become more demanding in the current economic climate, trying to avoid getting their money

blocked in ventures for too long. Angels are increasingly unwilling to fund firms that are clones of foreign startups or face intense competition, such as online car rentals, car pools and best-deal ventures, Shah said. But too much caution can prevent investors spotting a hit, such as Nischal Shetty’s Twitter application “justunfollow”, which has more than three million registered users including 10,000 paid customers. When he set it up three years ago, he generated revenues from day one despite a lack of enthusiasm from external investors. “Angels asked me: how will you make money from this?” he said. There are a few signs of hope for budding entrepreneurs.

EDITORIALS Hero or villain?

t is quite a bad feeling when reel life heroes turn out to be real life villains. In a land where actors are deemed gods with, each with their own loyal fan following whose fervour borders on fanaticism, it is a letdown when we see the real face of the stars. The other day one of the “promising “ stars, not actors, but stars showed his real face when he got into a row with two ordinary men on the road. His complaint was that he who was in his swanky drive was made to wait behind the two who were in a smaller car. He allegedly says he honked several times to be given way so that he may go ahead but the two ‘ignored’ him. He makes use of the next gap he gets, overtakes, blocks them and then harangues them for their rude

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behaviour. The next thing he makes a call. In 15 minutes ﬂat zoom in men in safari suit and they take over as he quietly walks away. They beat up the hapless two, not exactly black and blue, but bad enough. The police take them away as if they were the ones who were troublemakers. Confusion reigns at the police station and then one of the guy who was almost beaten black and blue tries to clear the air before the media persons assembled that it was a small issue and he does not want it blown out of proportion. The scene would have been reversed if it had been in a movie of his. He would take the men in safari suits to task and walk away as the rich brat takes cover and cowers before him.

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Cinema

NEW CAST

Definitively cursed indie Western Jane Got a Gun has cast and lost an array of antagonists, burning through Michael Fassbender, Jude Law, and Bradley Cooper in a short span. Now Ewan McGregor is in talks for the role, meaning he and Natalie Portman might enact the Star Wars prequel reunion you never wished for.

CHASING ZOMBIES IN GOA

SCREEN POOPERS

Quirky side up Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, the makers of 99 and Shor in the City, are now gearing up for the release of their upcoming film Go Goa Gone, a zombie comedy of epic proportions. There has never been a film like this before in India, but that’s not the only reason why it’s in the news. Raj Nidimoru spills the beans about the film. HEMANTH KUMAR hemanth.k@postnoon.com

ou could argue that Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, better known as Raj & DK, have gone totally nuts when they began thinking about their latest film Go Goa Gone. After all, who makes a zombie film in an Indian context? On top of that, how do you convince the audience, most of whom have no clue about zombies, that it’s a rip-roaringly funny film beyond the gore and dead people sauntering as if they are dazed eternally? But then, it’s precisely this aspect of surprising people has been a constant in their filmography so far. Their previous film Shor in the City received rave reviews and that firmly put them on the map of directors to watch out for in Bollywood. Ask Raj Nidimoru if it was a

conscious decision to try something as wacky as Go Goa Gone soon after a hard-hitting film like Shor in the City, he says, “It wasn’t a conscious effort. I think out-of-the-box thinking comes naturally for both DK and me. Even Shor in the City is unusual in its own way, but it’s true that Go Goa Gone is the wackiest film we have done so far.” Unlike the West, Indian audience aren’t well versed with the concept of zombies as much as they are with witches, vampires and werewolfs. “That’s the fun part of Go Goa Gone. We took something which is totally alien and put it in Indian soil. The characters in the film are as clueless as the audience and the process of discovery of what zombies do and how to survive them is incredibly funny. Beyond the gore, Go Goa Gone is a comedy film,” Raj adds. In the past few years, there have

been quite a few zombie films like Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead and TV series like Walking Dead which drew a lot of attention. Did he draw any inspiration from those films? “I did watch a lot of films from the genre but we were clear that we shouldn’t rip-off any film. Then the whole purpose is defeated. The intention was to see what we could add to make the film completely different,” he confesses. One issue with zombies is that they don’t have a motive to kill. “Zombies are neither romantic like vampires and nor good looking. You can’t have a zombie character beyond a certain time limit. So, everything boils down to how the

other characters react to a zombie attack. Go Goa Gone is like an adventure in the jungle where the lead characters are struggling for survival,” he says. The presence of Saif Ali Khan, who plays a zombie hunter in the film, has made a lot of difference to the film and Raj Nidimoru says, “It would have ended up like an indie film which people would have discovered and recommended to others, but with Saif on board, it’s a mainstream film now. We needed someone who could carry off a macho, wacky character and Saif was perfect for the film.” Raj & DK will be once again teaming up with Saif Ali Khan for a romantic comedy for their next project. “It’ll have its share of edginess. Making a cliched film is not our cup of tea,” Raj signs off. (Go Goa Gone opens in screens on May 10)

The vamp from TV It is true that it is actors who rule Bollywood. Female leads — even in this progressive cinema age — have to try very hard to catch up, unless of course, they are the ‘item’ in the ﬂick. However, we didn’t expect Ekta Kapoor, who has been imbibing the ‘true Indian values’ through her K series to use only lead actors and item girls for promoting her latest ﬁlm Shootout At Wadala. She should have made Kangana Ranaut a part of the campaign too, after all, it is the Gangster star who’s the lead heroine of the movie!

Lilo takes the cake You would think the world has had enough of this blonde girlLindsay Lohan, but no. From admitting to snorting cocaine four to ﬁve times to evading tax, to being arrested, becoming lesbian then turning straight, Lilo has done it all. We wonder what her next attempt at hogging the limelight will be. Oh! wait, she is now said she likes being in a relationship with guys. And the rest of the world is supposed say Yay!

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Good news for all Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible fans out there. After grossing more than 700$ million at the box ofﬁce. The makers have returned with Mission Impossible 5 with Tom cruise signing on the dotted line.

Reese Witherspoon is reuniting with James Mangold for Three Little Words. Amanda Seyfried, who last starred in Les Miserables, is in talks to star opposite Witherspoon but no deal is done.

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WEDNESDAY MADNESS

DJ Rahul and DJ Preet will be belting out the latest chartbusters at 10 Downing Street tonight. Head to the pub and have a blast.

A SPLASH BASH

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Guests were seen enjoying their bit of pool time along with great food and music at sundown pool party organised at Aqua, The Park.

DAZZLING NIGHT

A host of stars made their presence felt at the audio launch of Sandeep Krishna-Nisha Agarwal starrer DK Bose. Spotted at the do were Rana, Navdeep, Madhu Shalini and others. 1

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Music to serve a cause Karuna: A Time for Heroes, an initiative by Heroes Project to support children with HIV was launched at Hotel Avasa. The concert featuring singers Neeraj Shridar, Usha Uthup and Lucky Ali will held on May 17.

SPOTTED IN THE CITY

Chennai Superkingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; player Suresh Raina was spotted at Adidas Showroom at Nagarjuna Circle on Tuesday.

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health

ALL MEDICAL COLLEGES TO PRESCRIBE GENERIC DRUGS

The Medical Council of India has issued circulars to deans of all medical colleges, directors of post graduate institutes and presidents of state medical councils to give wide publicity to ensure compliance by doctors as far as possible in prescribing drugs with generic names. IANS

REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTION

The 1960s was an important time for women; science and medicine had progressed significantly so as to help researchers come up with another mode of contraception — the intrauterine device. The IUD is a form of reversible contraception, which is the most effective type of birth control.

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COILED FOR PROTECTION What is an IUD?

ccording to the definition by WebMD, “An IUD is a small, T-shaped plastic device that is wrapped in copper or contains hormones. The IUD is inserted into the uterus by the doctor. A plastic string tied to the end of the IUD hangs down through the cervix into the vagina.” There are two types of IUDs —hormonal and copper IUD. Both types of IUD prevent fertilisation of the egg by damaging or killing sperm. The IUD also affects the uterine lining. In India the popular IUDs are Copper-T and Multi loads.

s of 2002, IUDs were the most widely used form of reversible contraception, with nearly 160 million users worldwide. But this did not come without problems. In 1975, The Dalkon Shield, a popular IUD was recalled under charges that it had caused infertility in thousands of users. The side-effect that it caused, needless to say, had many women going off other IUDs as well, fearing consequences. Even in the ’80s the fear had not abated, Mary Mathews*, a newly married girl in 1981 recalls the effects. “While it was not very popular in India, in the US, there was a hue and cry about it. My sister-inlaw, who had used Dalkon Shield, found it difficult to conceive when they tried

after stopping the IUD. She went into depression and gradually became withdrawn. She later committed suicide because of the inability to bear children.” Dr MV Kishori, gynaecologist at a clinic in Srinagar Colony, reveals that not many women who come to her prefer IUDs. “Firstly, not many women are aware of the various methods of contraception available. All they seem to know about is abortion and the pill, which is a very sad thing. They are unaware of the methods to prevent the creation of an unwanted child in the first place.” The lack of awareness is partly due to the paucity of proper advertisements — at least compared to the morning after pill or iPill advertisements. There

used to be ads on TV on Copper T, but too few and far in between. Dr Kishori adds,“These devices prevent unwanted pregnancy as effectively as sterilisation, but unlike permanent sterilisation, when a woman wants to become pregnant she simply has to remove the IUD. But women are also hesitant to use IUDs because of the need for a doctor to put it in safely.” Talking about the sideeffects, she adds, “Menstrual cramps, heavier flow during periods which can lead to anaemia are some of the common symptoms. One must also keep in mind that it doesn’t reduce risk of contracting STDs or pelvic infections.” *Name changed on request.

Why are IUDs preferred?

review of studies of IUDs for emergency contraception has found that IUDs inserted within five days of unprotected intercourse prevented pregnancy 999 times out of 1,000 — a failure rate below 0.1 %.

Other forms of contraception Vaginal ring : The ring is made of flexible plastic and delivers estrogen and progestin. You place the ring in your vagina for three weeks, and then remove it for one week so that you have a regular period. n Diaphragm: Made of rubber and shaped like a dome, a diaphragm prevents sperm from fertilising an egg. It covers the cervix and must always be used with a spermicide. n Female condom: The female condom is made of polyurethane, or soft plastic, and protects against STDs. It is inserted deep into the vagina, over the cervix. Unlike the male condom, the female condom can be put into place up to eight hours before sex. n Patch: A contraceptive patch is a transdermal patch applied to the skin that releases synthetic estrogen and progestin to prevent pregnancy. They have been shown to be as effective as the combined oral contraceptive pill with perfect use. n

Contraception: A brief history

1951

Prompted by Sanger, Gregory Pincus begins research on the use of hormones in contraception. In Mexico City, chemist Carl Djerassi creates a progesterone pill

1954

John Rock in collaboration with Pincus, conducts the first human Pill trial on 50 women in Massachusetts.

1960s

Intrauterine devices (IUDs) first manufactured and marketed in the United States.

Late 1960s

Feminists challenged the safety of oral contraceptives (“the Pill”) as a result of confirmed serious health risks associated with it.

1980s and 1990s Hormonal birth control methods expanded to include implants and injectables. Low-dose pills were introduced.

Sources: TIME Magazine, Our Bodies Ourselves (Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Inc)

1992

Emergency contraception became more widely available as a result of public awareness campaign.

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Technology GAME ON LOS ANGELES: A new wave of Star Wars videogames is coming. A deal announced by videogame giant Electronic Arts and The Walt Disney Company calls for EA to develop new game titles across interactive platforms such as consoles for “a core gaming audience.” Disney will retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile, social, tablet and online game categories.

“Collaborating with one of the world’s premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to our fans around the world,” said John Pleasants at Disney. EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said of the deal: “Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe. Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans... The new experiences we

create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay.” Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Star Wars came into the Disney empire last year when the Hollywood group bought LucasFilm, the studio created by George Lucas know for the blockbuster Star Wars films. Disney has already announced plans for three new episodes in the saga. AFP

ioWare will be working on a sequel to Star Wars: The Old Republic, this could either be an expansion or an entirely new RPG built from ground up. The company now has the freedom to create a game that is entirely for the hardcore gamers so they can create some magic if they get

around to it. Dice of Battlefield fame could make a great military game set in the Star Wars universe. They developers have certainly matched out at times out done Call of Duty in terms of quality and if they bring it over to this franchise it should make for a very interesting game.

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Games series based in Star Wars universe

Visceral games is known among gamers for the Dante’s Inferno and Dead Space series. Star Wars franchise really hasn’t had a dark game to date and if the company taps into their experience to bring out something unique for adult gamers they can definitely reap solid gold.

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A FRESH START Microsoft dropped the biggest hint at the return of a Start button to Windows 8 today. Speaking at the Wired Business Conference in New York, Windows chief Julie Larson-Green reiterated that Microsoft is looking to change certain elements of its upcoming Windows 8 update, codenamed Blue, in response to user feedback. “Some of it is about not just about time on task or how quickly they learn it … some of it is just in the comfort level that people have.” That comfort level has left some confused, and others calling for the return of the Start button to Windows 8. Third-party apps that specialize in providing a button UI have soared in popularity since Windows 8’s release.

NEW LOOK FOR MAPS

Google is about to launch a new interface for Google Maps. The update will remove the sidebar and will display everything on top of the full-screen map. One of the new features lets you restrict local search results to places recommended by top reviews or your Google+ circles. It’s a more immersive interface that will probably work well on mobile devices. Instead of focusing on navigational elements, buttons and sidebars, the new Google Maps focuses on the map. Google has also updated map colors, icons, text styles.

COMING, FASTER PHONES

More phones and tablets are set to get Intel inside. The chipbuilder has announced a new technology called Silvermont that promises to triple the speed of your smart phone or tablet. The new Silvermont microarchitecture is an update to Intel’s Atom mobile processors, intended to challenge rival Qualcomm’s dominance of the smart phone and tablet market. It’ll appear in Intel’s planned Merriﬁeld chips for phones, Bay Trail chips for tablets, and Avoton for microservers. And tablets could double in speed as Silvermont appears in Intel’s forthcoming 22-nanometre Bay Trail chips. It will also do the thinking for in-car entertainment systems.

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Entertainment ALL SMILES

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agarjuna is all smiles these days. His recent film, Greekuveerudu, got a great response and the entire team of the film is happy that it was lapped up by the audience. “It has been a good year for me so far. Greekuveerudu is doing well at the boxoffice. My bike-racing team won a race in Spain and Naga Chaitanya’s film, which is slated for release on May 10, is going to be a big hit. I couldn’t be happier,” Nagarjuna said while addressing the media at the success meet of Greekuveerudu. Talking about the film, he said, “I am glad that the film has impressed the family audience. The dialogues have got a good response. A lot of people have been telling me that my onscreen chemistry with Nayanthara is fantastic. She’s a fabulous co-star to work with. It’s true that the film’s CG effects are not up to the mark, but the real strength of the film is its emotional quotient.” K Vishwanath, Sivaprasad Reddy, Dasaradh, Kasi Vishwanath, Geethanjali, Anil Bhandari and Ganesh were also present at the event. Talking about his future projects, Nagarjuna acknowledged that veteran director Dasari Narayana Rao had expressed his desire to remake Yedanthasthula Meda, a 1980 film which had ANR in the lead role. “I’ll take a call only after watching the film again. Apart from that film, during the shooting of Shirdi Sai, K Vishwanath and I were discussing about collaborating for a film in future,” he revealed. When asked why he hadn’t done dual roles in a long time, he replied, “I haven’t got a good script like Hello Brother. I’ll definitely act in dual roles if I get a good script.” Nagarjuna’s next film Bhai is currently under production and another film tentatively titled Manam will go on floors in June.

Legends honoured with postal stamps

o celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema, the postal department has released special postal stamps depicting 50 icons from cinema. From Telugu cinema, postal stamps of Allu Ramalingiah, SV Ranga Rao and Bhanumathi were issued. All three of them were proliﬁc actors in their time and their contribution to Telugu cinema is immense.

Trisha’s new film launched

new film starring Trisha in the lead role was launched yesterday morning in Hyderabad. Pandian is going to direct the film and it also stars Poonam Bajwaa and Oviya in lead roles. It’s reportedly a heroine centric film and narrates the story of three friends. D Imman is scoring the music.

Nikhil, Swati team up again

It has been a lucky year for me: NAGARJUNA

ikhil and Swati, who were last seen in Swamy Ra Ra, are all set to team up once again. This untitled film will be directed by newcomer Chandu Mondenti and Venkat Srinivas is going to produce it. The film is said to be a thriller with oodles of comedy and it’ll go on floors in June this year. Karthik Ghattamaneni is the cinematographer.

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AN INTERVIEW WITH AURANGZEB NIDHI BHUSHAN nidhi.b@postnoon.com

ilmmaker Boney Kapoor’s son may have found it easier than other newcomers to land a Bollywood movie, but that doesn’t mean he’s not the hard-working type, says Atul Sabharwal, who has directed the newbie in Aurangzeb. “Arjun Kapoor has worked very hard on this Yash Raj Films (YRF) project (Aurangzeb) and I’m confident that he’ll be convincing in both the roles,” says Sabharwal. Arjun, who has a double role in Aurangzeb, says the movie was offered to him before he even started filming Ishaqzaade. “I got Aurangzeb giftwrapped as a

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Valentine’s Day present from YRF last year,” the actor quips. “The film is technically my first as it was offered before Ishaqzaade.” When asked what lured him to the project, he says: “Well, it wasn’t a typical YRF film. It showed tremendous potential and the fact that it was a double role only made me say yes faster.” Arjun, who’d be playing a nasty, power-hungry youth — Ajay Singh — and a grounded Vishal in Aurangzeb, says it was challenging to play the two roles. “Because the two characters are poles apart, they were that much harder to play. Even though Vishal has to pretend to be Ajay in the movie, the challenge was to keep Vishal’s essence alive even when he’s don-

ning his Ajay hat,” says the 27year-old, adding that Kaminey was one of the recent doublerole movies he thoroughly enjoyed. When asked who he related to more — Ajay or Vishal, the actor very obviously said Vishal. “He’s a man of few words, slightly reserved. I’m a little like that too,” he explained. Wasn’t working with fellow

newbie Parineeti Chopra easier in Ishaqzaade than working with veteran actors like Rishi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff and Amrita Singh in Aurangzeb? “I was like a school kid in Ishaqzaade — had to be told everything. With Aurangzeb, I have graduated,” he responds quickly. “Moreover, while working with senior actors, one subconsciously learns a lot and strives hard to better oneself.” The famous but grounded star, who has films like Virus Diwan, Gunde and 2 States in his kitty among others, also tells us that it was Salman Khan who guided him and convinced him to act. “I wanted to become a director. It was because Salman Bhai saw something in me, I don’t know what, that I am where I am today.” Coming back to the actionpacked film, which has its fair share of steamy scenes, Aurangzeb also stars debutante Sasha Agha. Since Arjun Kapoor has been there, done that, in Ishaqzaade in terms of steamy scenes, we asked Sasha to tell us about her experience. She says: “It was part of the movie, hence part of my job. I had no qualms, plus I’ve known Arjun even before Aurangzeb, so there was no room for awkwardness.” Daughter of Pakistani singer Salma Agha, Sasha also boasts a singing talent. In fact, she has sung for Aurangzeb, which is set for a May 17 launch.

A king in the making? Only one movie old, actor Arjun Kapoor is all set to become Bollywood’s next superstar. The 27-year-old Ishaqzaade actor, who hasn’t let success go to his head yet, talks to Postnoon about his upcoming crime thriller Aurangzeb. He tells us that having a movie background made it easy for him to blend in.

Bombay Talkies was fun: Dibakar Banerjee

hile making Bombay Talkies with three other directors, Dibakar Banerjee has gone through the most fun experience of his life and he dreads leaving it behind. "When again would I get the chance to work so closely with three of my friends Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar?" asked the successful auteur. IANS

Sonam to open Cannes this year

his year marks Sonam Kapoor’s third visit to Cannes. The young actor is delighted to be part of the event and has been spending a lot of time researching and putting together looks. She will be visiting Cannes on May 15 and 16. She will be present at the opening ceremony of Festival de Cannes on May 15 and walk the red carpet on May 16 as well. This year, Sonam, who is the brand ambassador of an esteemed cosmetic company, would be seen visiting and celebrating ‘100 years of Indian Cinema’ at Cannes.

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Jessica, Gwen named most powerful moms

omen run the world! Working Mother has released its top 50 picks for the Most Powerful Moms of 2013, and some of Hollywood's most famous names have made the cut. Singers Jessica Simpson and Gwen Stefani joined the ranks of business executives and best-selling authors due to their multitasking in both the music and fashion industries.

he film starring Robert Downey Jr as the hero Tony Stark has earned 410 million yuan ($67 million) since last Wednesday, when it broke a national record with openingday sales of 116 million yuan, Xinhua news agency said. The Chinese release had four extra minutes, including the product placement of a local milk drink called Gu Li Duo touted as a source of Iron Man's energy, the Hollywood Reporter said. Also unique to the Chinese version was the appearance of "Dr Wu", a character played by local actor Wang Xueqi, who in his limited screen time drinks a carton of Gu Li Duo and performs an operation on Stark. Chinese viewers felt the added bits were "superfluous to the narrative", the Hollywood Reporter said. There was no immediate explanation for the additions. Chinese authorities normally cut foreign films, due to sexual and political sensitivities, rather than add to them. In April the country's cinemas abruptly cancelled all screenings of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained just as it was released, with one viewer adding that a showing was stopped after just one minute. Nudity of the main character played by Jamie Foxx may have prompted the sudden censorship, the popular web portal Sina said at the time. Scenes were also cut from the latest James Bond film Skyfall, including a killing in Shanghai, along with mentions of prostitution in Macau and torture by Chinese security agents. AFP

Charlie Sheen, Denise go to court over twins

harlie Sheen and Denise Richards are in court right now, where a judge is expected to allow Denise to have temporary custody of Charlie and Brooke Mueller's twins Bob and Max while Brooke gets help in rehab. The open question... will child services and the judge be down to let Brooke take the kids back when she leaves rehab.

Andrew Garfield to star in Martin’s Silence

artin Scorsese can finally give voice to Silence. Scorsese not only has secured the financing he needed and a production greenlight for June 2014, he’s landed a coveted leading man: The Amazing Spider-Man’s Andrew Garfield. The project, which also will feature Ken Watanabe, is sure to catch the attention of international distributors at the upcoming Cannes market.

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. Arthur Schopenhauer

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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PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

SCRIBBLING PAD

1 Auto grille protectors 5 Accompanier of means and opportunity 11 Pencil stump 14 Summit 15 Tarzan, for one 16 Preposition in poetry 17 It falls mainly on the plain 19 It may be civil yet raging 20 Boulder-to-Pueblo dir. 21 Public contempt 23 Playwright Edward 26 Words before a kiss 27 “Fawlty Towers” character 28 Bad-mouth 30 Goodbyes on the Island 31 21st U.S. president’s monogram 32 Proposer or salesperson, essentially 35 Flyover country, to some 40 Take back, as a public statement 41 Under-the-table item 43 Poultry delicacies 46 Certain parasitic creepycrawler 49 Spartan serf 50 “What did I tell you?” 52 Disease of cereal grasses 53 Alternative to a bikini 55 Night before a holiday 56 Pasture, poetically 57 Famous gem once owned by J.P. Morgan 62 Ignited 63 Border duty 64 Put aside the inferior ones 65 Product pitches 66 Falls as ice 67 Assistance

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1 Setting for many jokes 2 “His Master’s Voice” co. 3 “Who ___ to judge?” 4 Just had a feeling 5 Lion’s pride 6 Goddess of abundance and fertility 7 Lukewarm 8 Grown-up bug 9 Full of oneself 10 One conferring honor upon 11 Rather recent 12 A Muse 13 October birthstones 18 “Peek-a-boo, ___ you!” 22 New Zealand native 23 Duke’s conference, briefly 24 Clay mixture 25 “B’rith” preceder 26 Conclude by reasoning 29 Casts off the skin 30 Mountain ridge 33 Agcy. concerned with air time? 34 One making introductory remarks 36 Hang like a spaniel’s ears 37 Hygienists’ coworkers 38 Wooden shoe 39 Prefix for “sol” or “space” 42 Greenwich time zone 43 Spiny, treelike cactus 44 “The ___” (Virgil work) 45 Cummerbund folds 47 Denim magnate Strauss 48 Twist badly 50 Close shave 51 Spine-chilling 54 “Just to name a few” 55 Rotten grades 58 Many a time 59 Arrival-board word 60 Bad way to be prepared? 61 Tall mountain

Chai Time WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013 Thiruvaikumar

STAR POWER for 9-5-2013

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

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Be cordial with blood relatives. Avoid luxurious expenses to avoid future financial problems. Drastic changes are likely in your lifestyle. While expressing your opinions you need to consider the place and time to avoid misunderstanding.

STRIP TEASE AGNES

Some have bright chance to buy a new house or land. Happy events are likely to take place at home. Good financial flow will improve your position from weak to strong. Your social status is likely to see an upward trend.

You will extend help and support to your blood relatives. Unwanted confusions and apprehensions are likely to make you upset. Consult with your close friends, well wishers and elders of the family to avoid such problems.

Making friendship with new persons during journey is to be avoided. You need to be cautious before taking up any type of assignments to avoid unexpected troubles or hurdles. However, relatives will help you at the right time.

Avoid eating outside as health problem is likely. You will make surprising strides in your life which will make other to feel jealous of you. But, their efforts to create trouble to you will not be successful. You are advised to keep away from social work.

Children might feel confused and your guidance is needed to them. You will get promising opportunities which will help in improving your life comforts. Your involvement and shrewdness will bring you desired results.

Children will respect your advice and act accordingly. Your creative thoughts are likely to take a shape and get implemented. Misunderstanding you had with some of the close relatives will disappear.

A long pending work will get completed which will bring cheer to you and family members. Enemies will be nowhere as you will gain strong and upper hand. You will be straight forward in your actions and plans.

You will fulfill the needs of family members. You will be upset with the irresponsible comments from friends and relatives. Though your talks look matured and acceptable, avoid talking in unwanted occasions.

TAROT READ

Sumaa Tekur

tarotreadhyd@gmail. com

ARIES:

GEMINI:

Three of Swords – You make a special connect with a person whom you thought was not of your kind at all. But you’re in for many surprises today.

LEO:

Three of Cups – You’re prepared to take the ladder to success. Your promotion will give you a new status and you bask in it for some time.

LIBRA:

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

Nine of Cups – A comparison with another person may irritate you. You want to be one of a kind and be known for your special qualities.

SAGITTARIUS:

Six of Cups – Fusion is the flavor of the season. It brings two different things together and it also makes room for new learning about other cultures.

TAURUS:

Four of Cups – Change is on the horizon. You may not have expected it. You feel nervous about making any change but you are forced to take action.

CANCER:

Two of Pentacles – By respecting processes you endorse the system you work within, no matter how much you despise its structure.

VIRGO:

Queen of Cups – There are many different emotional colours and you go through quite a few today. The waning moon may be making you a little moody.

SCORPIO:

The Star – A competitor may be making things difficult for you, especially at the work place. You need to be wary of this person.

CAPRICORN:

Three of Wands – You make be looking at a problem from the macro perspective. But to resolve it, you may need to dip into it completely.

PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS

PISCES:

The World – Share your thoughts with someone close. Even if he/she doesn’t understand, the process of sharing itself will do you a world of good.

NUMBER GAME

Hierophant – Extra effort will be needed in order to make a plan work. Think things through carefully and spend more time planning.

SCRABBLE

AQUARIUS: The

POOCH CAFE

Avoid adopting a luxurious lifestyle, and control the expenses to avoid future trouble. New efforts will face a delay in the execution stage. Younger blood relatives will extend their possible and best help.

for 9-5-2013

Four of Pentacles – Someone is coming in the way of your plans and not allowing you to prosper. There is every chance that you may have harmed this person in the past.

NON SEQUITUR

Change of residence is likely for some. Avoid interfering into others’ personal issues as you are likely to land in trouble. Also avoid talking about resolved issues again with blood relatives. Be careful while driving.

SUDUKO

Profit is likely from ancestral property. Good effects are going to pour upon you. Comforts will increase with regard to house and vehicle. Younger brothers will improve with their hard work. Son will get a good career opportunity.

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Entertainment WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

GETTING CLOSER

Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel

planning a family? S

inger-actor Justin Timberlake is reportedly planning to start a family with singer-wife Jessica Biel after he finishes touring this August. “That’s why they kept breaking up, I don’t think he was sure he wanted children. (Now though), it’s in their plans,” contactmusic.com quoted a source as saying. Timberlake recently said marrying Biel was the best decision. “Every once in a while I can catch a glimpse of her when she doesn’t see me looking and I have this moment where I’m like if you never make a good decision...if you only make bad decisions for the rest of your life. You made one really good decision,” said Timberlake. “Because she’s just like...it’s nice to marry your friend. It’s nice to marry your best friend,” he added. IANS

CINE BYTES Mariah Carey to quit ‘American Idol’?

op star Mariah Carey reportedly wants to quit American Idol because of her feud with Nicki Minaj. “One night Nicki tried to be kind of nice, but Mariah didn’t bite, so I guess she figured ‘screw that’. She’s done with it all. She’s also under fire from the producers for not being critical enough of the contestants,” a source said. PTI

Lindsay Lohan wants to adopt

Myles to join Wahlberg Transformers 4

irector Michael Bay has tapped British actress Sophia Myles for a major supporting role in Transformers 4, TheWrap has learned. Mark Wahlberg leads an all new cast that also includes rising stars Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor .

roubled star Lindsay Lohan has revealed she would love to adopt her first child. The 26-year-old, who recently checked into the Betty Ford Center in California for 90 days of court-ordered treatment, said she would love to start a family, reported Contactmusic. PTI

sports

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

NBA

Knicks get past Pacers Carmelo Anthony busted loose to score 32 points as New York Kincks shut down Indiana Pacers in the final 15 minutes to post a 105-79 win.

Carmelo Anthony #7 of the New York Knicks drives against Roy Hibbert #55 of the Indiana Pacers in Game Two of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NBA Playoffs on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York City. AFP/NBAE NATHANIEL S. BUTLER

NEW YORK: Carmelo Anthony busted loose to score 32 points and New York shut down Indiana in the final 15 minutes to post a 105-79 win that evened their Eastern Conference playoff series at one game each. Anthony, who came into game two shooting just 37 percent in the postseason, scored 22

points in the fourth quarter against the mistake-prone Pacers at Madison Square Garden. "I just thought in that fourth quarter our pace offensively was like old times again," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. The Pacers shot just 25 percent in the fourth and were

GIRO D'ITALIA

Enrico wins thriller, Wiggins loses time

SERRA SAN BRUNO: Enrico Battaglin claimed his maiden Giro d'Italia stage on Tuesday with fellow Italian Luca Paolini retaining the leader's pink jersey and race favourite Bradley Wiggins losing time after an epic 246km of racing from Policastro to Serra San Bruno.

Battaglin, who rides for the Bardiani team, surged out of a small group of survivors from the day's second and last climb to sprint to a well-earned victory after nearly 6hr 15min of racing to the southernmost point of the Giro's 96th edition. "I knew this stage could suit me, especially with the rain which put the brakes on some people's ambitions," said Battaglin. "I'd saved some energy whenever I could earlier and probably attacked a little from the line but I held on for the win." Minutes earlier, Danilo Di Luca, the Giro winner in 2007, belied his 37 years to launch an audacious attack towards the end of the final climb and race into the lead with Colombian Robinson Chalapud on his wheel. AFP

hampered by turnovers, committing a total of 21 that New York converted into 32 points. The second round playoff series now switches to Indianapolis for Saturday's game three at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The Knicks reversed a two point deficit by going on a dynamic 36-4 run that led to a

98-68 lead with 3:30 left to play. During that 12-minute stretch, the Pacers failed to make a single field goal. They missed on 14 consecutive attempts from the floor until Orlando Johnson drained one from beyond the arc with just over three minutes left. Iman Shumpert added 15 points on seven-of-11 shooting to help the Knicks rebound from a game one loss, 102-95. Raymond Felton also scored 14 points in the victory in front of a crowd of 19,033. Paul George led Indiana with 20 points but had only five in the second half. David West and George Hill finished with 13 and 12, respectively, in the loss. A few Knicks players had said they felt the Pacers went after Anthony's injured shoulder in game one, while the Knicks admitting they were outplayed. Sore shoulder or not, Anthony made sure that didn't happen again. "Melo just caught fire," the Pacers' George said. "He found opportunities and found mismatches and he was just being aggressive. "We still contested shots. I felt like we made it as difficult as we could, but that's why he's an elite player. He has the ability to make contested shots." AFP

BRIEFS Australia, China agree to partnership SYDNEY: Australia and China announced a four-year collaboration agreement Wednesday that will see 24 games played between their men's and women's basketball teams. The partnership will tip off with the Sino-Australia Challenge in June â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a four-game men's series in preparation for the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain. Perth will host the first two games, which will see newly appointed Australian coach Andrej Lemanis take charge for the first time, with the last two at Tianjin and Yongcheng. The deal between Basketball Australia and the Chinese Basketball Association is backed by funding from the Western Australian government, Australian basketball said. AFP

Chess Tourney from Saturday HYDERABAD: The Brilliant chess academy will conduct the 84th Brilliant trophy open chess tournament on 11, 12 May under the auspices of A.P Chess Association at Brilliant Grammar High School, Dilsukhnagar. Players in the age group of U6, U-8, U-10, U-12, U-14 can participate. Entries will close by 1.00 pm on 11 May. For further details contact B Anand Naik on 9247979886.

ASTER MINDS TOURNEY

Winners of the Aster Minds AP State Ranking Tennis Tournament pose with their trophies at the St.Thomas High School in the city on Tuesday.

sports

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

MADRID OPEN

NOVAK OUSTED!

Djokovic was knocked out in the 2nd round of the Madrid Open as Grigor Dimitrov beat him 7-6 (8/6), 6-7 (8/10), 6-3.

MADRID: World No.1 Novak Djokovic was knocked out in the second round of the Madrid Open on Tuesday night as 21-yearold Grigor Dimitrov produced the performance of his career to date to win 7-6 (8/6), 6-7 (8/10), 6-3 in just over three hours. Dimitrov took the first set in controversial circumstances as he benefited from an overrule when serving set-point down at 4-5 before eventually taking it on a tiebreak. He then fluffed a match point as the second set also went all the way to a tie-break, but regained his composure to break him twice in the final set to seal it 6-3. Djokovic had been heavily fancied to repeat his 2011 triumph in the Spanish capital after ending Rafael Nadal’s eight-year reign on the clay of Monte Carlo a fortnight ago. However, the Australian Open champion was troubled throughout by Dimitrov’s

Djokovic blames lack of preparation MADRID: Novak Djokovic believes his preparation for the Madrid Masters was badly affected by not being able to practise due to an ankle injury after he was knocked out in the second round by Grigor Dimitrov. Djokovic had recovered from rolling the injured right ankle whilst playing for Serbia against the USA on Davis Cup action last month to claim his first title in the Monte Carlo Masters a fortnight ago. However, he said he did not know whether he would even take part until Saturday, although he also acknowledged that he had been beating by the better player on the evening. “I didn’t prepare myself so well, but, look I’m not trying to find any excuses for the loss. I tried to do my best in this moment, and maybe my best is not like it was in Monte Carlo. AFP

powerful ground strokes in a match filled with controversy. The game had gone with serve until 4-5 in the first-set when with Dimitrov set-point down he appeared to have fired long. However, much to Djokovic’s displeasure the chair umpire was summoned to examine the mark and ruled that the ball had indeed been in. Dimitrov went onto hold and then broke Djokovic to serve for the set himself, but just as when the two met in Indian Wells earlier in the year, the World No.28 crumbled when trying to see out the opening set and Djokovic broke straight back. The seventime Grand Slam champion then took control of the tie-break and had two more set-points at 6-4, but Dimitrov this time hung in and opened up his own opportunity to take the set with a blistering forehand down the line at 6-6.

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic reacts after being injured during his tennis match against Bulgarian player Grigor Dimitrov at the Madrid Masters at the Magic Box (Caja Magica) sports complex in Madrid on Tuesday. AFP/DOMINIQUE FAGET

TENNIS BRAWL

WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME

Tomic’s father suspended LONDON: The father of Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic (right) has been indefinitely banned from all tournaments as he faces charges of assaulting his son’s practice partner, governing body the ATP announced on Tuesday. John Tomic claimed in a court appearance in Madrid on Monday that he had acted in self-defence when he headbutted Thomas Drouet shortly

after their arrival in the Spanish capital for a Masters Series event. He denies a charge of assault. “Following last week’s incident in Madrid concerning John Tomic, and the ensuing investigation, Mr Tomic’s credential privileges have been suspended at all ATP tournaments until further notice,” read an ATP statement released on Tuesday.

Support offered for Bernard after father banned SYDNEY: Australian tennis officials say moves are under way to provide support for Bernard Tomic and help him find a new coach after his father was indefinitely banned from all tournaments. John Tomic is facing charges of headbutting his son’s practice partner Thomas Dro-

uet, with the ATP suspending his credentials until further notice. He denies the charges and will return to a Madrid court for a hearing on May 14, by which time his son is likely to be in Italy playing the Rome Masters. Tennis Australia’s head of professional tennis Todd

Woodbridge said he had been in touch with the player and help was being offered. “John is his coach but will obviously be out of the picture now — we don’t know for how long — so helping Bernard is our priority,” Woodbridge told The Australian newspaper. AFP

Monty, Fred Couples inducted

ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA: Colin Montgomerie and Fred Couples were inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame, highlights of a stellar 2013 class that also included veteran and lifetime achievement inductees. Last year, Sandy Lyle became the first living Scot to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. He was joined by two others this year, Montgomerie and Ken Schofield. “Thank you all for coming here this evening to celebrate what I think is the greatest game of them all, and I’m sure you all agree, a game that I started playing at the grand old age of five in Troon, Scotland,” Montgomerie said late Monday. “Mind you, in Troon, Scotland, that’s about all you do,” he joked. Ken Venturi, Schofield and Willie Park were also inducted in this year’s class. Venturi and Schofield were inducted via the Lifetime Achievement Category. Park was chosen via the Veterans Committee. AFP

SPORTS BRIEFS Bolt to run 100m in Cayman Invitational

ICC most ineffective governing body: ACA

GEORGE TOWN, CAYMAN ISLANDS: Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt says he is feeling strong and will be aiming for a fast time in the 100 metres when he competes at the Cayman Invitational Wednesday. “I am definitely going to try running my fastest, pushing myself

MELBOURNE: Fuming after L Sivaramakrishnan’s appointment as a players’ representative in the International Cricket Council, the Australian players’ union has called the ICC the “most ineffective governing body in world sport”. “It’s a really sad day for cricket,” Australian Cricketers Associ-

because I am feeling good,” he said. Bolt says he is over the hamstring strain which kept him out of a Jamaican meet last weekend. He said his withdrawal from the Jamaica Invitational was simply a precaution because he had been feeling some pain in the days leading up to the event.

ation (ACA) CEO Paul Marsh was quoted as saying by ‘The Australian’. “This issue encapsulates all that’s wrong with cricket at the moment. The irony of the situation is the ICC is supposed to be the body that upholds all those ethical standards that it asks of the players,” he added.

Golfer Fred Couples speaks during his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Tuesday at AFP/MARC SEROTA the World Golf Village.

IPL 6

BATTLE OF THE TITANS

METRE

6 S 449

I think from here it makes us a dangerous side. Teams will take us lightly and it gives us an extra bit of positivity than anything else. Eoin Morgan KKR player

Chris Gayle (RCB) 566 runs

Dwayne Bravo (CSK) 20 wickets

Ojha praises captain Rohit M

umbai Indians’ Pragyan Ojha applauded captain Rohit Sharma for his calm approach and said that the young skipper takes his own decisions on the field. “He is very cool on the field. He takes his own decision. We have a few seniors and as a youngster when a senior says something, there is a little bit of pressure but he handles it very well. And he is very calm and composed,” Ojha said. “He always tells you, you have to get me couple of wickets. As a captain it is important when he comes and gives you lot of confidence. So you open out as a bowler,” he said. Having posted a challenging 170, MI bowled out KKR for 105 in 18.2 overs last night to register a comfortable 65-run victory. PTI P

T PT

CSK

18 +0.419

16 +0.644

16 +0.441

RCB

14 +0.568

SRH

14 +0.107

KXIP 11

10 +0.171

KKR

8 -0.273

6 -0.778

PWI

10 0

4 -1.291

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

Chris Gayle (RCB),

40 4S 1451

Michael Hussey (CSK)

HIGHEST SCORE

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

175*

Chris Gayle (RCB)

BEST BOWLER

5-20

James Faulkner (RR)

SRH eye home win again G APARNA SAI

aparna.s@postnoon.com

his season, four teams — Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad — have won all their matches at home and all these sides are eyeing a place among the top four. SRH, who take on Chennai Super Kings today on their home turf, are keen to extend their win streak at home and slowly make their way to the qualifiers. The Sunrisers, who were initially considered as one of the underdogs, emerged as the surprise package of the tournament having won seven matches from the 11 they played. However, with most of their matches being low scoring ones, Hyderabad are lagging behind in their net runrate, a factor which could later prove to be a hindrance in their journey to the

SRH VS CSK AT 8PM ON SET MAX

SCORECARD RR VS DD

playoffs. Taking on a formidable Chennai, SRH would hope that they do not run out of luck today and extend their unbeaten win-streak at in Hyderabad. Meanwhile, Chennai, who need one more win to cement their place for the playoffs, would look to put up a much better show than they had in their previous clash against the Mumbai Indians. CSK registered the lowest score this IPL when they were dismissed for a paltry 79 against MI. But the team and the management have taken this defeat in their stride and have said that it was good that this loss happened during the league matches rather than at a later stage. Today’s match will be a battle of not just talent but one of strength, tactics, luck and undoubtedly grit. While Chennai Super Kings have experience on their and a brilliant batting line-up, SRH have a bowling attack which has done extremely well this IPL season.

BHAJJI FRY

MI VS KKR

Delhi Daredevils innings (20 overs maximum) Jayawardene* c Dravid b Trivedi 34 V Sehwag b Faulkner 11 CM Gautam† c †Samson b Watson 2 DA Warner c Sachin Baby b Binny 13 BJ Rohrer not out 64 KM Jadhav not out 23 Extras (lb 2, w 5) 7 Total (4 wickets; 20 overs) 154 Bowling O M R W Econ SW Tait 3 0 39 0 13.00 JP Faulkner 4 0 38 1 9.50 SR Watson 3 0 21 1 7.00 STR Binny 2 0 3 1 1.50 PV Tambe 4 0 30 0 7.50 SK Trivedi 4 0 21 1 5.25 Rajasthan Royals innings (target: 155 runs from 20 overs) R Dravid* c Agarkar b Kaul 53 AM Rahane not out 63 SR Watson not out 28 Extras (b 1, lb 1, w 9) 11 Total (1 wicket; 17.5 overs) 155 Bowling O M R W Econ S Kaul 3.5 1 23 1 6.00 UT Yadav 3 0 28 0 9.3 M Morkel 4 0 40 0 10.00 AB Agarkar 2 0 22 0 11.00 P Negi 4 0 28 0 7.00 BJ Rohrer 1 0 12 0 12.00

Mumbai Indians innings (20 overs maximum) DR Smith c McLaren b Iqbal Abdulla 47 SR Tendulkar b Bhatia 48 KD Karthik† not out 34 RG Sharma* c Morgan b McLaren 16 KA Pollard c Narine b McLaren 4 AT Rayudu run out (Balaji/†Bisla) 0 Harbhajan Singh run out (Pathan) 0 MG Johnson not out 10 Extras (lb 1, w 10) 11 Total (6 wickets; 20 overs) 170 Bowling O M R W Econ L Balaji 3 1 7 0 2.33 R McLaren 4 0 60 2 15.00 SP Narine 4 0 29 0 7.25 JH Kallis 3 0 21 0 7.00 Iqbal Abdulla 4 0 30 1 7.50 R Bhatia 2 0 22 1 11.00 Kolkata Knight Riders innings (target: 171 runs from 20 overs) MS Bisla† st †Karthik b Ojha 17 G Gambhir* b Johnson 0 JH Kallis c Ahmed b Harbhajan 24 YK Pathan b Ojha 13 EJG Morgan c Sharma b Ahmed 5 DB Dasc & b Harbhajan Singh 23 McLaren run out (Sharma/†Karthik) 1 R Bhatia c Malinga b Harbhajan 4 Iqbal Abdulla not out 6 SP Narine c †Karthik b Johnson 3 L Balaji b Malinga 0 Extras (lb 9) 9 Total (all out; 18.2 overs) 105 Bowling O M R W Econ MG Johnson 4 0 13 2 3.25 AN Ahmed 3 0 18 1 6.00 PP Ojha 4 0 23 2 5.75 SL Malinga 3.2 0 15 1 4.50 Harbhajan 4 0 27 3 6.75

Rajasthan Royals won by 9 wickets

Mumbai Indians won by 65 runs

Mumbai Indians bowler Harbhajan Singh celebrates after taking the wicket of KKR’s Jacques Kallis during their IPL 6 match at the Wankhade stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday. PTI/SHIRISH SHETE

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

sports

AVB BELIEVES IN TOTTENHAM

Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas-Boas has dismissed Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny’s suggestion that Spurs are not good enough to deny his team a place in the Champions League.

SIR ALEX FERGUSON RETIREMENT

Is Ferguson about to retire? The Daily Telegraph claimed the 71-year-old Scot was ‘giving serious consideration’ to leaving Old Trafford and could announce his retirement before the end of the week. LONDON: Alex Ferguson could be about to sensationally retire as manager of English Premier League giants Manchester United, according to British media reports on Tuesday. The Daily Telegraph claimed the 71-year-old Scot was “giving serious consideration” to leaving Old Trafford and could announce his retirement before the end of the week. The newspaper did not cite sources but said that “senior figures” at the club could not be contacted to either confirm or

Cups, four League Cups, and two Champions League titles, as well as a host of other honours. United claimed an unprecedented 20th English league title last month, having narrowly lost out to local rivals Manchester City the previous season. During Ferguson’s tenure, United have become one of the most famous teams in world sport, with American business magazine Forbes recently reporting that they are worth $3.17 billion (2.42 billion euros).

deny the information. British bookmakers reported a rush of bets on Everton manager David Moyes to become Ferguson’s successor. Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has also been linked with the position in the past. Ferguson has been at United since November 1986 and is the most successful manager in the history of English football. In his 26-and-a-half-year reign, he has led the club from the English northwest to 13 Premier League titles, five FA

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE

Dzeko goal sees City home…barely

MANCHESTER: Carlos Tevez advanced a compelling case for a place in Manchester City’s FA Cup final team with an effervescent display in his side’s 1-0 win at home to West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday. The Argentine was one of eight players drafted into the team by manager Roberto Mancini and he created the game’s only goal in the 35th minute with a cross that was dispatched by Edin Dzeko. Tevez will now hope to get the nod on Saturday when City tackle Wigan Athletic in

the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium. Victory took City seven points clear of Chelsea

in second place, 10 points below champions Manchester United, while West Brom, who

have not won in seven games, remain eighth. West Brom manager Steve Clarke sent his team out in an unfamiliar 3-5-2 formation, but the visitors were nonetheless the first team to settle. On-loan Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku carried the early menace, shooting narrowly wide from 25 yards and then heading straight at goalkeeper Joe Hart after City failed to clear their lines from a free-kick. Gradually, however, the hosts began to assert themselves.

CHELSEA MANAGER CAROUSEL

Rafa expects the ‘special one’ to return Jose Mourinho, who left Chelsea in September 2007 after three years in charge, has been strongly linked with a return to his former side. LONDON: Rafael Benitez said on Tuesday that he expected to be replaced as Chelsea coach by the club’s former manager, Jose Mourinho. Interim Chelsea manager Benitez reiterated that he would be leaving Stamford Bridge as planned at the end of the season, having signed a short-term contract in November following the sacking of Roberto di Matteo. Real Madrid coach

Mourinho, who left the London club in September 2007 after three years in charge, has been strongly linked with a return to his former side. “The next year there will be another manager,” said Benitez. “I think everybody knows who will be here,” the Spaniard added, in a clear reference to Portuguese manager Mourinho. However, Benitez would not be drawn into referring to Mourinho directly by name and

insisted that the speculation about the identity of his successor would not distract him from the task at hand. “I will concentrate on my job now,” he said. For all he has done in guiding Chelsea into next week’s Europa League final against Benfica, Benitez has never been accepted by the Blues faithful on account of his prolonged war of words with the Londoners in general, and Mourinho in particular.

Wigan face drop after defeat Wigan find themselves three points from safety. TOM WILLIAMS Agence France-Presse LONDON: Wigan Athletic face an uphill battle to avoid relegation from the Premier League after twice relinquishing the lead in an agonising 3-2 loss at home to Swansea City on Tuesday. Wigan, who tackle Manchester City in the FA Cup final on Saturday, could have moved out of the bottom three with victory, but instead they find themselves three points from safety with only two games to play. After the Wembley clash with City, who warmed up with a 1-0 win at home to West Bromwich Albion, Roberto Martinez’s side visit fourth-place Arsenal before hosting Aston Villa on the season’s final day. Wigan have pulled off several improbable escapes from relegation in recent seasons and manager Martinez vowed that his players would not give up. “It’s a missed opportunity. Obviously, we were playing at home,” he told Sky Sports. “The injuries we’ve picked up recently have been very costly.”