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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013 HYDERABAD

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LI’L FOLKS

Some of the most recognisable cartoon characters in the world, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and their gang became icons of American culture. On the death anniversary of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, we pay homage to a set of children who enriched our lives.

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FRIGHT NIGHTS BACK ON

Bollywood’s tryst with horror films has had its share of ups and downs over the years. However, horror films these days have a different story to tell. We trace the coming of age of this genre which seems to be back in vogue.

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HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

`43 LAKH THE COST OF KEEPING BJP AT BAY

Two adjournments of general body meetings by the MIM and the mayor this month cost the corporation `43 lakh.

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HYDERABAD

WITNESSES AMAZING TOURISM GROWTH

State tourism claims credit for high growth, as domestic tourism outstrips overseas tourism. Visitors ignore political disturbances like T-stir.

RADIO DAYS! On World Radio Day, we visit the National Institute of Amateur Radio to find the enthusiasts that are not only keeping the medium alive but also have it thriving.

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city events

FASHION YATRA IN CITY

Kamini Saraf brings a together collections from national and international designers. It is on February 15, from 10am to 8pm at Hotel Taj Krishna. The fashion yatra presents an exquisite collection of jewellery and wedding ensembles.

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES tation menu and other packages Where: Taj Falaknuma Palace When: February 14 Contact: (040) 6629 8585

V-DAY SPECIAL Valentine’s Day buffet There is a candle light dinner and special buffet for Valentine’s day. Where: Seasonal Tastes, Westin Hyderabad Mindspace When: February 14, 7pm to 11pm Contact: (040) 6767 6888

SHOWS Hyderabad 360 Live virtual and visual music by Puce Muse. Where: Qutb Shahi Tombs When: February 17, 7pm onwards Contact: (040) 2355 4486

Landmark love hampers Landmark is giving out romantic novels, music CDs, romantic movie DVDs and gadgets at a discount. Three for two on romantic reads and 30 per cent off on romantic DVDs are some of the offers. Where: Landmark When: February 14

French Film Festival Six French films will be screened with English subtitles. Where: Prasads IMAX, Hyderabad When: February 19-21 Contact: hyderabad.afindia.org

Special V-Day menu Enjoy a sumptuous Valentine’s Day meal with a delectable western and Indian menu at The Dining Room. There is also a special Valentine’s Day menu at Tre-Forni Bar & Restaurant. Where: Park Hyatt When: February 14, 7:30pm onwards Contact: (040) 4949 1200 Four course meal There is a special meal for Valentine’s Day. The meal combo for two people includes roasted vegetable, goat cheese quesadilla, pot stickers, stuffed nachos, and cottage cheese delight pizza. Where: TGI Friday’s, RK Cineplex, Road no 2 ,Banjara Hills When: February 14

Yudh Sai Shree Arts presents Yudh, a Bharathanatyam solo by Savitha Sastry on war. Where: Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabad When: February 19, 7pm to 8:15pm Contact: (040) 2323 1245

ART

DANGLING DANGER: Cable wires hang low at road no. 10, Jubilee Hills. SRINIVAS SETTY

Contact: (040) 4015 1925 Musical night Prem Joshi and band will perform live on Valentine’s Day. The band draws inspiration for Indian and contemporary Western music.

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Where: Hard Rock Cafe When: February 17, 9pm onwards Contact: (040) 6463 6375 Stay and dining There is a special aphrodisiac degus-

WATER SUPPLY Complaint Cell Sewerage Complaint Hyd. Water Supply HOSPITAL General Hospital, Sec-bad Niloufer Hospital, Red Hills NIMS, Director, Punjagutta Osmania General Hospital Railway Hospital, Lalaguda Apollo, Jubilee Hills Care Hospital, Banjara Hills Care Hospital, Nampally Care Hospital, Musheerabad Care Hospital, Sec-bad Kamineni Hospital, LB Nagar

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BLOOD BANKS Blood Bank,Narayanguda Chiranjeevi Blood Bank Blood Bank Mediton Goal Red Cross, Vidyanagar ADRM Blood Bank Mythri Charitable Trust NTR Memorial Trust Care Banjara Hills

For 'HER' A tribute to Victim X, raising the conscience to respect womanhood through art. Exhibition of installations and mixed media art by a variety of artists. Where: Iconart Gallery When: February 4-14, 11:30am to 7pm Contact: www.iconart.in

MISCELLANEOUS Numaish Numaish is the 73rd All India Industrial Exhibition is an ongoing event in the City. Where: Exhibition Ground, Mukarramjahi Road, Nampally When: Up to February 15, 4pm to 11pm Contact: (040) 2460 3015 The Landmark sale Landmark announces its sale of Up to 70 per cent off. Bestselling books starting at `49, 3 for 2 on 500 new releases are just some of the offers. Where: Landmark When: January 25-February 25 Filmmaking workshop Yavanika Films is conducting a film appreciation course over two weekends and a filmmaking workshop over four weekends. The workshops are for adults and will be held on weekends. When: Weekends starting from February 23, 11 am onwards Contact: 94901 00404 Green lifestyles seminar The seminar focuses on energy and resource conservation opportunities available at home and how the same could be utilised. Where: Visvesvarayya Bhavan, The Institution of Engineers India, APSC, Khairatabad When: February 15 Contact: (040) 2337 3087

Buy Art It is an anniversary art show of affordable art by 30 artists. All artworks are priced between `1,000 to `10,000. Where: Iconart Gallery, Banjara Hills When: January 18-February 18 11:30am-7pm

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AMBULANCES Apollo 23548888, 23607777 Kamineni 24022222 Medwin 23202902, 23204616 Smile Line Dental Hospital 23747979 Red Cross 27627973 Niloufer Hospital 23314095 Gandhi 23320332 AIRLINES

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

Beside Meridian School, Banjara Hills34. Working hours are from 8 AM to 1 PM And 2 PM to 3PM. MUSEUMS Salar Jung Museum AP State Museum Nizams Museum

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City

YESTERDAY’S QUESTION

SHOULD DRUG ACCUSED BE GIVEN MAXIMUM PUNISHMENT? 86% 14%

YES (A) NO (B)

TODAY’S QUESTION

IS THE STATE DOING ENOUGH TO CRACK DOWN ON MAJOR TAX DEFAULTERS? A)

YES

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CRIME

1 held in school scam

CRIME 1 caught in RGIA job scam

With this arrest, police say they have vital clues in the DPS scam. Mohd SUBHAN mohd.s@postnoon.com

e was a scrap dealer and he became a partner in a school scam, police say. With the arrest of Syed Farooq Hussain (pictured), a scrap dealer-turned-educationist, Shamshabad police claimed to have got vital clues to the two main people behind the DPS school scam in Attapur. Sub-inspector of Shamshabad, K Vishwanath, said, Mohd Abdul Najeeb, a resident of Old City and Subash Chandra Bose, a resident of Kishanbagh, are still absconding. But police have

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T claimed to have got some clues regarding their whereabouts. The suspects had floated a primary school titled DPS, giving a false impression to the public

that it is a branch of the famous Delhi Public School. They have allegedly charged nearly 200 parents with huge sums of money and escaped.

he Shamshabad police team, investigating the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) job scam, has arrested another ex-employee of RGIA, M Babu Rao, for his complicity in the case where several people were cheated with the promise of getting them jobs in RGIA. Earlier, Postnoon had

reported (pictured) that the police had detained another employee, K Adams. Babu Rao, 35, is a resident of Prashanth Nagar, Borabanda. He had been working with a company, BVG, in RGIA. Adams offered him a higher pay and roped him into a new venture – an employment agency that promised jobs at RGIA, is reported to have fleeced several people of their money.

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GHMC

LAST YEAR... HERE

`43 lakh: The cost of keeping BJP at bay

Safety in numbers

ast year we had reported how the transport department was gearing up to call for tenders for high security number plates. An electronic chip would be embedded in the number plate, which would allow ofﬁcials to track the vehicles. The proposal was in cold storage for a long time as the government said that it would be a costly proposition. .

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NUMEROLOGY

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the number of domestic tourists who visited Hyderabd in 2012. This is a 200 per cent increase since 2011, and more domestic and international visitors are expected this year.

So unless and until the court feels the child will benefit by going with his/her mother, the sole guardianship to the mother cannot be approved. Vishwa Janani, advocate See page 7

THINGS WE LEARNT TODAY

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

T-stir notwithstanding, Hyderabad draws tourists. Hyderabad is a hot favourite with domestic tourists. Over a crore visited the City in the past year. The number of foreign tourists was also impressive. Guess the City of Pearls has not lost its sheen.

Parties bicker at the cost of taxpayers. With the MIM postponing two general body meetings to spite the BJP, `43 crore has been lost, and people struggle with civic issues that aren’t being addressed.

All parties are now blaming the MIM for playing petty politics just to spite their rivals. Congress too lamented the unnecessary adjournments. Md NIZAMUDDIN nizamuddin.a@postnoon.com

wo adjournments of general body meetings by the MIM and the mayor this month cost the corporation `43 lakh. The MIM’s blind hatred of the BJP has thus caused such a huge avoidable loss, civic sources pointed out. The estranged ruling partner, the Congress, is said to be uneasy about the MIM but to an extent, finds itself helpless in preventing its hawkish partner and keeping it reined in. Will the situation be repeated when the budget session meets on February 18? Congress leaders agree that the MIM should not have wasted two days this month in order to prevent the BJP corporator of Langer House, Uday Kumar, from taking oath following a High Court order disqualifying the sitting corporator of MIM . According to them, they have protested the adjournment on February 2. They say that the meeting should have been conducted in the public interest. But the MIM, repeating what it did on February 6, nonplussed the Congress. According to Congress floor leader Diddi Rambabu, the MIM would have got mileage by creating a furor even on February 6. “If we had not opted for a condolence motion, the MIM was ready with something similar to the first day,” said Rambabu. But now that the government has given a green signal to allow the oath to be taken by Uday Kumar, the Congress is confident of holding the meet-

ing smoothly. “No more fudging of the meeting as it is now cleared by the government,” the floor leader added. Meanwhile, TDP floor leader Singireddy Srinivas Reddy, who was arrested on the day of the meeting, is coming up with new issues. Daily representations to the GHMC and other department officials already started on issues like graveyard maintenance and neglect of government hospitals like Osmania. “All the party corporators will protest if these important issues are not addressed,” said Singireddy. The leader, who has been awaiting an opportunity to speak at the general

MIM’s estranged ruling partner, the Congress, is said to be uneasy about the MIM but to an extent, finds itself unable to rein in its hawkish partner. body meeting, will be coming up with the several new issues this time. Administrative sources point out that the GHMC has lost around `43 lakh in two sittings. The GHMC spends around `12,000 per minute to conduct a council meeting. Taken together, the cost of sit-

ting allowances, food, security and staff expenses, the sum comes to `43,20,000. But the MIM still seems to be hoping for some miracle to come to its rescue on February 14, when the case of the Langer House corporator is heard in the SC. But, as the date is set for the meetings of budget and GB on February 18 and 19, there is no opening for the party to dodge the issue once again. With the Assembly session starting from February 21, it has to send budget details by February 20 at the latest. All these are avoidable losses. All parties are now blaming the MIM for playing petty politics to spite their rivals.

NEWS BRIEFS

Single mothers find themselves in a tough spot. Women who plan to go abroad to work find it difficult to get sole custody of their child, which is needed if they want to take the kid along.

TDP supremo completes Jewellery shop looted in Special counters for 2,000 km Secunderabad Sona Masoori

Modernised abattoir to come up in Jiyaguda

It’s World Radio Day today, so tune in. Amateur radio operators are keeping the airwaves humming with their enthusiasm.

RTI conference comes to Hyderabad. A national meet of RTI activists will address the issues plaguing the implementation of the RTI Act.

DP chief Chandrababu Naidu has completed 2,000 km in his walkathon in 132 days. Speaking on the occasion, Naidu said that only the TDP could give an efﬁcient and corruption-free governance. The party supremo also asked the party ranks to take this message to the people. Naidu has been on a padayatra across the State.

urglars looted a jewellery shop in Post Market in Secunderabad last night and escaped with gold ornaments worth several lakhs, police said. The thieves reportedly had broke open the lock of the shutter and gained entry. The Market police have taken ﬁnger prints and other telltale signs of the crime, and are investigating.

pecial counters have been opened at Rythu Bazaars and rice mills across the City and the State to sell the ﬁne variety of Sona Masoori for `30/kg to bring down the prices in the open market. Joint Collectors had been directed to open at least 20 centres across the State, the civil supplies department said.

he APPCB authorised the GHMC to set up a modernised abattoir at Jiyaguda, which will be the fifth modernised abattoir in the City. The PCB's decision was influenced by the HC, which cleared petitions filed by butchers who claimed that the abattoir would not pollute the surrounding Osmansagar reservoir or the catchment area.

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TOURISM

Tourists flock to Hyderabad INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com

yderabad has turned out to be a favourite tourist destination in entire Andhra Pradesh despite the ongoing separate Telangana agitation. The tourist sector in the City is on a roll. The City’s growth in the tourism sector has been remarkable in the last three years. The number of tourists, both domestic and foreign, visiting the City since 2010 has doubled by the end of 2012. If we look at the official statistics, the number of domestic tourists visiting Hyderabad rose from 46.45 lakh to 1.54 crore by the end of 2012. There is an unprecedented increase of almost 200 per cent in the number of domestic visitors to Hyderabad city. The very fact that the number of tourists has increased indicates that despite the various kinds of disturbances, including the separate T-agitation since 2009, the State capital broke its own records when it came to attracting tourists. Commenting on this, Hyderabad district tourism officer Sudhakar said that the regular organisation of tours and

to the City. The State-level figures of foreign tourists also show a slight reduction. Andhra Pradesh attracted a total of 15.3 crore tourists during the last year and earned US$23 million in revenue through the tourism sector.

State tourism board claims credit for growth. Domestic tourism outstrips overseas tourism. Visitors ignore political disturbances like T-stir. travel expos by the State tourist department across the country led to the huge surge in the number of domestic tourists to Hyderabad. “We have organised tours and travel expos across the country in all important cities. Apart from the metros — Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata — we have organised expos and exhibitions in cities like Ahmedabad, Baroda, Jaipur, Lucknow, Bhopal, Amritsar, Pune and other cities in the country. “Through these expos, we succeeded in attracting lot of tourists to Hyderabad in particu-

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Aid for stranded Telugus

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lar and the State in general,” he said. The potential of Hyderabad as a tourist destination won it the award of ‘Must-Visit Destination-2012’. It was also adjudged the ‘Must-Visit Destination’ by the New York Times in 2011.

SLIGHT DIP IN FOREIGN TOURISTS

However, when it came to foreign tourists, the number of tourists visiting the City came down slightly. According to the official statistics, in 2010, a total of

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Hyderabad Domestic Tourists

Foreign Tourists

2010

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2,94,951

2011

82,94,537

2,31,503

2012

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2,94,951 foreign tourists visited Hyderabad. However, in 2012, a total of 2,61,527 tourists visited the city, a dip of around 10 per cent. When we compare last year’s figures to those of 2011, there is an increase of 10 per cent in the number of foreign visitors

Keeping the phenomenal growth of the tourism sector in mind, the State government is planning to launch scores of tourism projects in the current year. The government is planning to launch 13 new tourism projects, being constructed at the cost of `63 crore, this year. Another 12 under-construction tourism projects, being built by spending `53 crore, are ready for their launch. Some of these projects include eco-tourism resorts, Haritha and beach resorts in various districts of the State. Speaking to Postnoon on the growth of the tourism sector, State tourism minister V Vasant Kumar said that the government is committed to give all kinds of support for the growth of the tourism sector in the State. Kumar also hoped that the tourism sector would continue to record phenomenal growth this year as well.

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eeping its promise to rescue Telugus stranded in various Gulf countries, the State government has once again sprung into action in the wake of amnesty being declared by many Gulf countries. Most of these emigrants are stranded due to lapse of their existing visas, and other reasons. A delegation of State government officials are leaving for a tour of Gulf countries today. Minister for NRI affairs D Sridhar Babu is also expected to leave for the Gulf later this week. The officials will meet officials of the respective countries in order to work out the modalities to bring back the citizens. The delegation will also hold discussions with the representatives of Gulf-based Telugu associations.In an interview with Postnoon last year, Babu revealed that the State would come to the rescue of Telugus stranded in the Gulf and added that they were awaiting for amnesty to be declared by the countries.

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RTI

City to host national RTI meet The convention assumes importance in the context of official bids to dilute the empowering Act. M ANIL KUMAR

RAHUL RAMAKRISHNA rahul.r@postnoon.com

By the end of the three-day conference, all reviews and discussions will be put forward as the Hyderabad Declaration.

yderabad will play host to a national convention on RTI awareness and related issues, organised by NCPRI (National Campaign for People’s Right to Information). The threeday convention, also supported by local RTI civil society groups such as UFRTI, will be held from February 16 to February 18 at AMR-APARD in Rajendranagar. Around 300 activists from all over the country are expected to participate in the convention. Speaking at the press conference, Nikhil Dey, prominent RTI activist and co-convenor of NCPRI, said the RTI Act has had a fundamental effect on governance. “The RTI Act has received immense attention and has come under continuous attack. Our aim should be to promote and protect the Act.” Among the many issues that

continue to stall the RTI Act from achieving its true potency, Dey identified three main ones that will form the agenda at the convention. “The usage of the RTI Act by citizens, progress of the government’s role in utilising and promoting the Act and the controversial issue of appointment of information commissioners will be discussed. We

must make it clear that the information commission is not an independent judicial body but rather should function in partnership with the people.” The previous convention, held in Shillong in 2011, resulted in the Shillong Declaration, which will be examined. By the end of the third day, all reviews and discussions will be put for-

UP IN SMOKE

Student organisations burn effigies symbolising the State government to protest M ANIL KUMAR the hike in electricity tariff at Narayanaguda Crossroads.

ward as the Hyderabad Declaration. “In part, the Hyderabad Declaration of 2013 will look at national issues, but a major segment will look into issues of the RTI Act in Andhra Pradesh,” said Dey. Also speaking at the conference was B Ramakrishnam Raju, convenor of the United Forum for RTI (UFRTI). “The RTI Act has been very influential in solving and bringing in transparency, but a lot of issues continue to stall its progress. For instance, the application file that seeks to remove the applicant’s file for filing an RTI is pending approval

from the CM’s office. Other developments, such as the induction of the high-level committee by the State government inviting suggestions and proposals, have been a welcome move. The committee, comprising the CM, chief secretary, DGP, chief information commissioner, principal secretary among others, will also include two people from civil society. But negative aspects, such as attacks on RTI activists, continue, despite a GO being declared for their protection. Our aim is to educate and spread awareness among district collectorates and SPs with immediate effect,” Raju said. The conference will feature big names from RTI circles such as Aruna Roy, retired Justice AP Shah and Wajahat Habibullah (chairman of national minorities commission). The State government, Centre for Good Governance, AMP-APARD and department of rural development are supporting the event.

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FAMILY

Mothers seek sole guardianship ALEENA ALICE aleena.t@postnoon.com

hese days many women who are divorced seem to be going abroad for career opportunities. However, the catch here is that a single mother who wants to go abroad with a child (a minor) cannot leave the country without obtaining the sole guardianship of the child. In India, children below the age of 18 are supposed to have legal guardians. Usually in a majority of the divorce cases, the custody is given to the mother. However, under the Guardianship and Ward Act of

1890, even though the child is staying with the mother, the father is still the legal guardian till the child turns 18. This clause makes it difficult for women to expand their career opportunities abroad and also take their child along. “More number of women are going abroad these days and have been approaching the courts to get the sole guardianship over their child. However, it is not necessary that the court will grant the guardianship to the mother. In a divorce, custody and guardianship are made by the court in the best interest of the child. So unless and until the court feels

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the child will benefit by going with his/her mother the sole guardianship to the mother cannot be approved,” says advocate Vishwa Janani.

Referring to a case where the guardianship was given to the grandparents, another advocate R Jain says, “In some cases, if the courts find that the

interest of the child is not with the parents, it does not provide custody. There was this case where a mother, who was going abroad to work at a multinational company, approached the court to obtain the guardianship of her child. However, the court had awarded the guardianship to the maternal grandparents, the reason being that the father was economically unstable, and since the mother would be busy with her work, the child would be better off with his grandparents in India.” In such cases, the mother can re-apply with the petition if she can provide substantial proof that she can take care of the child.

CAMPUS

JNTU ties up with US varsity JNTU signs an MoU with the University of the Pacific, for a student exchange programme in industrial pharmaceuticals. ANUBHA K SINGH anubha.k@postnoon.com

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he University of the Pacific, USA, has entered into a collaboration with JNTU Hyderabad and Alliance Institute to offer a Master of Science (MS) programme in industrial pharmaceutics. As per the MoU, students taking this particular course will continue their first year in JNTUH and later transfer credits to the United States to complete the remaining courses and research at Thomas J Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Only select students will be allowed to continue other semesters there. “The selection will be done on entrance basis and on some requirements which a student needs to fulfil in his first semester” said JNTUH vicechancellor Rameshwar Rao. “If in case a student is not selected, they have the option to continue their course and research work at JNTUH — Alliance or do research work at the University of the Pacific to fulfil the requirements for a MS degree in India” he said. But many students are not happy with the collaboration. “The opportunity is applicable only to students who can get a good score in Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and fulfil visa requirements. Only they can their studies at the University of the Pacific” said, Prabhakar R, a JNTUH student .

Students are also worried about accommodation and other expenses they need to bear during their stay abroad. “The course fee will be same as what we are paying in India, but what about our personal expenses abroad? Even if many students are selected on merit basis, not everyone can afford staying in America. In addition to this, students continuing their studies in there will have better placement offers compared to the students continuing their course here” said Ranjani P, a student of Alliance Institute. The Alliance Institute chairman, Ramana Malladi, Ge-Yao Liu from the University of the Pacific, and JNTUH vice-chancellor Rameshwar Rao signed the MoU. One good thing is that if any student fails to get admission in the Pacific University

because of visa issues, they still have the option of doing research work there under the guidance of any faculty in pharmaceutics and medicinal chemistry departments. Alliance Institute is providing the course for the last four years, but the collaboration for the MS programme is for the first time. This year, 12 students have already been selected for it

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WORLD RADIO DAY

RADIO REIGNS

On World Radio Day, we visit the National Institute of Amateur Radio to find radio enthusiasts who are not only keeping the medium alive, but also have it thriving. N SHIVA KUMAR

PADMINI C padmini.c@postnoon.com

ong before the radio became consigned to a relic, now thought solely in relation to the preinstalled FMs in our cars, it used to be a big thing. Families fine tuned their lives around their favourite programmes. The news broke through the bulletins. Cricket matches were followed through the eyes of the commentators, silence punctuated only by groans and cheers. All the while, interspersed with jingles to which even housewives hummed along while working in their kitchens. With the advent of more modern technologies, most notably the television and later the internet, the radio slowly took a backseat and finally melted away into the background. But defying all claims to the contrary, there’s one group that still rallies the cause of the radio — the HAMs aka the amateur radio operators. Technically speaking, amateur radio is different from commercial broadcasting in that its users are a community of people that use radio transmitters and receivers to communicate with a personal aim and not a pecuniary interest. As compared to around 3,000 to 5,000 amateurs in the 1980s, it is estimated that there are as many as 25,000 to 30,000 licensed HAMs in India today. A nongovernment institution that can claim to have contributed significantly to this number is the home-bred National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR). Established in 1983, the institute, which includes a museum housing radios down the ages, is today a major incubator and a training ground for radio enthusiasts. Speaking about the increasing appeal of amateur radio, the director of NIAR, Ram Mohan, says, “Amateur radio is both a scientific avocation and a service. It brings people from all walks of life from all over the world together through this one common affinity: Their love for communication, information, interaction and, of course, the radio.” But it also serves a bigger purpose. “It’s also the second line of

communication in emergency situations. HAMs have proven to be among the most efficient recourse for rescue efforts in areas with little to no connectivity during natural disasters like tsunamis, floods and earthquakes.” he adds. Tom K Jose, 14, practically lives on the NIAR campus. Both his parents are HAMs and so is the rest of his family. Having spent most of his out-of-school hours growing up around here, he shares his family’s passion for radio and has, in fact, already proven his mettle. Last year, in less than eight months, he made contact with 100 countries across the world, earning him an American Radio Relay League diamond DXCC challenge certificate and making him the youngest HAM in the world to do so. “Building friendships with people across the world was the greatest thing about the challenge, “ he says, smiling. So, does he see a future for himself in radio? “Yes. I want to be develop this technology further so we can use it to help people during disasters,” is his sure-shot reply.

It is here that we need it the most, considering how a large part of India has no connectivity of any sort, and how economic, reliable and effortless amateur radio is. Pratham Kaur amateur radio operator

NIAR conducts workshops in schools and colleges to spread the word on HAM to young achievers like Tom. It also conducts training classes for enthusiasts who are aiming to earn their own callsign. Despite the encouraging response, there are still some major hurdles. For one, most of the equipment required is still imported from Japan and China. Secondly, HAMs must train for months, take a test, and still wait anywhere between 12-18 months for a license from the Wireless Monitoring Station, DoT, before they can practice. “Amateur radio hasn’t really reached the audience that it is expected to reach in our country. It is here that we need it the most, considering how a large part of India has no connectivity of any sort, and how economic, reliable and effortless amateur radio is. We should look towards the West to understand how they’ve capitalised on the advantages of this medium. I think the government should do more to promote it,” says Pratham Kaur, an NRI and

active HAM from Atlantic City. Whether the government is taking note or not, there are certainly other parties which are. Ram Prabhu, an veteran designer from Bangalore has already stepped forward to bridge the demand-supply gap in the Indian market. Their R&D facility has already received views from over 105 countries, says Ram. “There are as many as five million HAMs in the world. Only 1 per cent of that are active users. By making low cost transceivers, we want to encourage and the increase the number of active users.” It’s the lack of awareness than the lack of know-how that’s limiting the popularity of amateur radio, feels another HAM, Ramesh Kumar, from Chennai. “People think only engineers and those with an interest in electronics will like this. But believe me when I say that is not true. I’ve seen everyone from astronauts and scientists to doctors and teachers, housewives and children as HAMs. You just have to give it a try, because to know radio is to love it.”

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THE THEORY

The theory of evolutionary behaviour is rooted in the biological differences of the genders. Both men and women are looking for the best bet in a partner to ensure that their progeny is healthy.

LOVE

Why we fake it?

or men, enhancing status is just as tempting as it is for women to enhance their appearance. In a 2010 study, psychologists Gregory Shuler and David McCord asked users of the dating website www. hotornot.com to rate the attractiveness of an average-looking young man with glasses. In successive weeks, they posted pictures of him, first standing alone, then next to one of three cars: a decrepit Dodge Neon; a Ford Focus; and a shiny Mercedes C Class C-300. The man wore the same clothes and neutral expression in each picture. His "hotness" rating rose after he was seen next to a car, peaked when he stood next to the Merc. He didn’t own any car, but the implication of ownership helped. Courtship is influenced by one’s cultural background and fashions, says Smith. Gifts are used everywhere to show increasing "investment" by a male in a female. In the West, they are flowers, chocolate and a ring, but differ in other cultures. The message: times have changed since H sapiens first walked, but our DNA — and thus our primal responses for sizing up a potential mate — has remained the same. "The man’s got to find a woman to bear the babies and the woman’s got to find a man who can help her with the resources to help her raise babies," said Fisher. “Men might not want the babies and women might not need the resources, both sexes respond in a pattern that from an evolutionary psychiatry perspective is adaptive," meaning their behaviour is shaped by natural selection. So first appraisals may sound like an awful meat-market moment, but they do not have to be. Successful relationships between "odd" couples show what happens when time and patience overcome blink-of-aneye judgements and stir interest, love and companionship. "Brainscanning studies show that we size up a person within the first few minutes," said Fisher. "Bottom line is, the more you get to know somebody, the more you tend to like them, the more they tend to like you. So one has really got to get over those first impressions and move into trying to think of reasons to say: Yes."

DON’T THINK ROMANCE,

THINK GENES RICHARD INGHAM Agence France-Presse

PARIS: She wore a tight red dress, a new pair of high heels and a matching handbag. He wore a suit, bright tie and a chunky watch. He thought she looked older and heavier compared with her page on the dating site. She thought he looked shorter than the 1m 83 (six feet) he had advertised. Twenty minutes into their drink, she learned he was only a junior in his sales department, and not a supervisor as he had made out. The evening was not a success. Few things are as starkly revealing about Homo sapiens than the rituals of courtship. If love is everywhere, so is fakery. And as Saint Valentine’s Day looms, some good advice to the gullible might be this: Don’t think romance, think genes. Witness the fitness! Underpinning the power suit and tie, the sexy dress and high heels, the makeup and jewellery — and the fibs that the men and women tell each other — is our species’ drive to survive, say evolutionary psychologists. "In courtship, who wins and

As Saint Valentine’s Day looms, some good advice to the gullible might be this: Don’t think romance, think genes.

who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow,” says Helen Fisher of Rutgers University in New Jersey. "So the game of courtship matters. It matters big time." DNA drives mating response The theory of evolutionary behaviour is rooted in the biological differences of the genders. Both men and women are looking for the best bet in a partner to ensure that their progeny is healthy.

But women have only a small, limited stock of eggs, while men have almost limitless sperm. If a woman gets pregnant, she has to invest nine months in gestation and then many years more in bringing up baby. So choosing a guy who is willing and able to provide is essential. "To paraphrase Darwin, males will mate with anything that has a pulse, women are choosy," quips US anthropologist Neal Smith. These differences explain our snapshot responses, honed over millions of years, when we eye a person of the opposite sex. Men, for example, have an overwhelmingly visual reaction, which is why the porn market is geared overwhelmingly to males, not females. Males are engineered to scan for signs of fertility — large breasts, a shapely figure, clear skin, bright eyes — and potential sexual invitation, such as swishy hair, red lips and a bouncy gait. Knowing this, women adapt their look accordingly. Which is why billions are spent on skin creams and hairdressers, and why shape-changing gadgets such as pushup bras, corsets and the "booty bra," moulding one’s

bum into pertness, find buyers. As for high heels, the scientists say the reasons why they sell are not the ones you will read about in fashion magazines. Heels change the angle of the buttocks. The higher the heels, the greater the angle. "A raised backside is attractive to men because it mimics lordosis, the sexually receptive position that mammalian females adopt prior to mating," notes Gad Saad of Montreal’s Concordia University, author of a book on evolutionary behaviour, “The Consuming Instinct.” Looking for fitness in a man, a woman goes for signs of health and strength, which indicates such genes will be transmitted to the offspring. Alternatively, she may look for signs that the man will be a good provider for it. The swift clues come from money and signs of status. This is why men jostle to show themselves off as alpha males and why credit cards, sports cars, watches, houses and other obvious signs of resources and rank are important. It also explains why admitting to being poor or jobless brings zero returns for a man looking for love at a cocktail party.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Business

IBERIA TO FIRE 3,800 WORKERS

Spanish airline Iberia will fire around 3,800 workers as part of its cost cutting programme that aims to improve the company's profitability after suffering losses since 2008, Xinhua reported.

Long-term planning must to battle energy scarcity It is the need of the hour to support small and medium organisations in updating and improvising their technology through incentives such as government subsidies and liberal loans from banks.

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nergy scarcity has become one of the major concerns not only for the state but for all developing countries of the world. With depletion of non-renewable energy sources (coal, gas, petroleum products) and drastic increase in demand of energy and less concern for conserving it at all levels made the condition worse in the country. The crisis had created many doubts about the survival of the industry and the development of the country. “Despite increase in energy production by setting up thermal power plants substantially, there is still a wide gap between demand and supply. The problem cannot be simply solved by increasing production but also by equally concentrating on conversation of energy. As per the planning commission report published five years ago, 23 per cent of energy can be saved through conservation. Around 10 per cent of the savings can be achieved by simply changing the attitudes and habits of the people. For instance, switching off from main will almost save seven per cent of the energy used by gadget rather than from the remote. Almost five per cent of energy can be gained from small investments and other eight percent through higher investments for everyday usage,” said PN Rao, Chairman, Energy Conservation Mission.

“However, the small and medium industry is reliant on the processes or manufacturing equipment that are outdated, which consume higher amounts of energy. Upgradation of technology needs heavy investments for these enterprises. On contrary, some of the large organisations invested heavily on conserving energy. It is not just to term themselves as green organisations but also to bring huge savings in long term. For instance, India is one of the lowest energy consumers in the world in terms of cement production,” he said. Rao stressed the need of support to small and medium organizations to constantly update and improvise their technology.

Solar (power) is the way forward. Industry can become self-reliant and can produce power through captive solar plant at the maximum of `10-12. per unit PN Rao Chairman, ECM

This can be achieved by providing incentives such as subsidies by the government and liberal loans from the banks and by educating them about long term benefits in the process. On current power crisis, he said, “The State is at its worst crisis ever in terms of power supply. Most of the gas-based power plants were shutdown due to non availability of gas. Non renewable energy sources like solar can be tapped to come out of this crisis. For instance, Setting up a thermal power plant needs an investment of `5-6 crore for one MW, where as solar power plant needs ` 7 to 9 crore. “However, the latter does not have shortage of raw material nor have any recurring costs. The costs of solar panels and other plant equipment have come down drastically in the recent years and further decrease is expected. According to National Solar Mission, the government is ready to buy a unit at the cost of `10-12. However, the power plants are quoting `8 to the government to sell power. “Solar is the way forward for even captive power plants. The industry is almost spending `20 per unit on gensets, compared to `6 unit from the grid. Industry can become selfreliant and can produce power through captive solar plant at the maximum of `10-12. However, the initial investments, which are turning out to be major hindrance for opting solar can be lowered by upgrading technology and increasing efficiency.” he concluded.

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YAHOO! BUYS ALIKE

Yahoo! on Tuesday said it acquired the startup behind an iPhone application that lets people know if nearby venues are like places that suit their tastes. Yahoo! did not disclose financial terms of the deal to buy Alike, which will work with the faded Internet pioneer's teams in San Francisco and at its main campus in the Silicon Valley city of Sunnyvale. "The Alike team created an app that focuses on personalization -- using the restaurants and places you like to find the ones you'll love," Yahoo! said in an email confirming the takeover. "We were very impressed by the team and their approach to building personalized experiences." Alike said it would no longer support its iPhone and Web browser applications that tap into the power of machine learning to recommend restaurants, cafes and more based on places users have shown they enjoy.

Overwhelming response to Kalamandir IPO

he IPO issue launched by Sai Silks (Kalamandir) on February 11 to accumulate funds has got overwhelming response from the investors from the fist day. "It was proud moment that a Hyderabad-based firm received such an achievement at the national level. Besides this, Sai Silks (Kalamandir) is the first saree retailer to tap IPO. All these factors, when accompanied with safety net scheme gave a people cuttingedge reason to invest," say experts. Giving their note on the occasion, Kalamandir management said, "We are very much delighted and thank all the investors for having faith in us. With this support, we will go ahead with more vigour and spread the glory of the State across the nation," Sai Silks operates 15 outlets in AP, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The `89 crore IPO was launched to meet its long term working capital requirement and expansion plans including setting up four retail outlets in Vijayawada, Hyderabad, Nizamabad and Chennai. The face value per share is `10 and the price band of the issue through the book building process has been fixed in the range of `7075 per share. The issue will close on 13 February.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

nation

SCHOOLGIRL RAPED A minor schoolgirl was sexually abused by a large number of youths at Chowkham in Lohit district. The girl, a student of Class IX, was allegedly raped by the group on Monday last when she along with her friends went out for a picnic, police said here today.

TRIPURA

VVIP CHOPPER SCAM

Cong, allies hope to end Sarkar raj

Will spare none, roars Antony

The Left Front hopes to script history by winning a fifth consecutive term. AGARTALA: Battle lines have been drawn up for tomorrow’s polls to the 60-member Tripura Assembly where heavyweights Chief Minister Manik Sarkar (pictured), TPCC president Sudip Ray Barman and president of Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura Bijay Hrankhwal are among 249 candidates in the fray. The Left Front is hoping to script history by returning to power for a fifth consecutive time. The main contest will be between the Left Front and its allies and the Congress and its partners. The CPI-M, the dominant partner in the Left Front, is contesting 56 seats, RSP two and CPI and Forward Block one each. The Congress is contesting 48 seats and its alliance partners INPT in 11 and National Conference of Tripura in one. An electorate of 23,52,505 including 11,64,656 women are expected to exercise their franchise in the election contested by a total of 16 political parties and independents. The CPI-M, which has taken credit for ending the fourdecade-old insurgency in the state and ensuring peace and communal harmony, is projecting Tripura as a model state in

KASHMIR

Curfew relaxed in some areas

SRINAGAR: Curfew was today lifted from three police station areas in the city while it was relaxed “indefinitely”in five other police station areas even as rest of Kashmir Valley remained under restrictions for the fifth consecutive day. “Restrictions will not be imposed in these areas if the situation remains peaceful,”a police officer said. Authorities had relaxed curfew for three hours in these five police station areas last evening and the relaxation period passed off without any untoward incident. However, the rest of the Valley remains under curfew. PTI

Action after CBI report. ‘Can still get our money back.’

terms of good governance having topped the list in the implementation of MNREGA. The Congress-INPT-NCT alliance has made “bad governance”of the Manik Sarkar-led government a poll issue, alleging that despite availability of central funds, employees, unemployed and farmers remained deprived during the 20-year LF regime. Corruption and nepotism by party leaders and partisan behaviour of the government are also important issues for the alliance. Of the 3,041 booths, 409 have been identified as very sensitive (A+), 535 booths as very sensitive (A) and 726 booths as sensitive. Altogether 250 companies of central paramilitary forces have been deployed in the state to maintain law and order. PTI

NEW DELHI: Under fire over allegations of kickbacks in the `3,600-crore VVIP chopper deal, the government today asserted that nobody found guilty will be spared and if wrongdoings were found by the CBI, the contract can be scrapped. “Nobody will be spared whatever may be the consequences,”defence minister AK Antony told reporters. Another scam had unfolded with the arrest yesterday of the head of a state-controlled Italian aerospace company that is suspected of paying bribes of about `362 crore in India to get orders for helicopters to ferry Indian VVIPs, prompting the government to order a CBI probe. The Ministry of Defence also decided to put on hold the receipt of the remaining nine of the 12 helicopters for which the deal was struck in 2010. Antony said CBI has been asked to give an early report on its probe into alleged kickbacks in the AgustaWestland helicopter deal. “Once we get the preliminary inquiry report from CBI,

strongest action will be taken against those found guilty,”he said. Asked about reports of the alleged role of former IAF chief SP Tyagi in the deal, the minister said, “I have no information.” “After the CBI report, we will take serious action that may include cancelling the deal,”he said. “We don’t want to jump the gun. We can get our money back even at this stage,”Antony said. PTI

Former IAF Chief Tyagi refutes bribe allegation

NEW DELHI: Former IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi today refuted allegations that he was paid bribes to swing a deal for procuring 12 choppers from Italian firm Finmeccanica to ferry VVIPs. “I am innocent. These allegations are totally baseless and I am denying them categorically. The deal was signed in 2010 whereas I retired in 2007 itself,” he said. Asked if he had changed any specifications for the contract to favour Finmeccanica, Tyagi said the “staff qualitative requirements for the VVIP choppers were frozen in 2003, much before I assumed the office of Chief of Air Staff, and the IAF did not change any requirements after that.” Asked about his relations with three alleged middlemen for the deal including one ‘former IAF officer Captain Tyagi’, the former Chief said he was his cousin but their relationship did not go beyond this. PTI

MAHARASHTRA

`125 cr jackpot for village

CHANDRAPUR: This sleepy, little village tucked away in the lesser known district of Chandrapur in Maharashtra is humming with life as its residents have hit a jackpot — enhanced compensation for their land acquired by a public sector coal miner. And happy is their local parliamentarian, Hansraj Ahir, whose persistent efforts have helped the villagers make the windfall gains. Ahir’s intervention has ensured that the local farmers will get `8-10 lakh per acre for their land, against the beggarly `20,000-45,000 per acre which was originally offered by Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd (CIL). WCL has decided to acquire 1,700 acres of the village land for its coalmine project.

The Maharashtra Cabinet last year had passed a resolution bringing rates of the land to be acquired for coal mining on a par with the rates in neighbouring Chhattisgarh. “However, the entire process took longer than stipulated and hence I had to intervene to get these simple farmers their rights. They will now be paid compensation as per the revised rates approved by the government,”Ahir said. Ahir said in 2010 the Chhattisgarh government issued a notification, making it mandatory for CIL and its subsidiaries operating in that state to offer a minimum rate of `6 lakh per acre for fallow land, `8 lakh per acre for rain-fed land and `10 lakh per acre land for irrigated land. IANS

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

World GUN DEBATE

It’s time to vote: Obama WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama brought the wounds inflicted by the recent spate of shooting deaths to Congress Tuesday, ending his State of the Union address with an emotional plea for tougher gun control. Speaking for victims’ relatives and gun crime survivors among the guests attending the joint session of Congress, he demanded their voices be heard amid the raucous debate triggered by a spate of bloody mass shootings. Many of those present wore green ribbons to signal support for tighter gun laws, a campaign that has gained strength since December, when a troubled young man burst into a Connecticut school and slaughtered 20 young children. The massacre in the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown has become a symbol of the threat posed by the millions of guns in private American hands, but it was only the latest of several such attacks to shock the nation. “It has been two months since Newtown. I know this is not the first time this country has debated how to reduce gun violence. But this time is different,” Obama told lawmakers and a national television audience. Citing polls that suggest most American voters now support some new limit on citizens’ access to guns, or at least to military-style assault weapons and high-capacity clips, Obama said it was time for Congress to vote on new laws. “Because, in the two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations and anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun,” he said.

ASSANGE TO RUN... FOR VICTORIA SENATE SEAT WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently hold up in Ecuador embassy in London, will stand for the Senate in Victoria for the September federal poll as the lead candidate of a newly formed WikiLeaks Party.

KILLER EX-COP ON THE RUN

FB WON’T ‘LIKE’ IT

‘Reports of a body being found false’ No body has yet been found in a burnt-out US mountain cabin where fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner was believed to have barricaded himself after a six-day manhunt, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

Dorner mystery n He carjacked a vehicle n Dorner takes refuge in a cabin. n Dorner and police engaged in a car-to-car firefight. n Dorner takes refuge in a cabin. n There was a massive shootout n He killed a deputy n There was a standoff n A gunshot was heard inside the cabin n The cabin erupted into flames Los Angeles Police Department Commander Andrew Smith speaks at a media briefing outside the Police Administration Headquarters regarding former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, February 12, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. JONATHAN ALCORN/GETTY IMAGES/AFP

LOS ANGELES: Media reports that a body had been found in the cabin near Big Bear, east of Los Angeles, and identified as Dorner’s were false, said Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) spokesman Andrew Smith. “That cabin is still too hot to enter. There has been nobody located and it has not been searched, the fire is too hot. Any reports of a body being found are not true,” he told reporters. “Any reports that the body has been identified as Christopher Dorner are not true. Nobody has been identi-

fied and no one has been located,” he said, contradicting earlier reports by NBC and KTLA 5 television. The embittered 33-year-old had allegedly already killed three people before going on the run last week, after posting a chilling online manifesto threatening to kill more officers. He was cornered in the snow-covered San Bernardino mountains after nearly a weeklong manhunt, which focused on Big Bear before expanding amid reported sightings elsewhere in California and a suggestion that he had fled to Mexico.

n First it was reported that a body has been found and it was Dorner’s.. n Then ofﬁcials deny the body found was that of Dorner. n Dorner killed four people in total.

NEWS BRIEFS Japanese tourists killed in Guam stabbing spree

100th self-immolation UN chief condemns bid by Tibetans reported blast on Syria border

Australian miners attack ‘obsession’ with tax

HAGATNA: Two Japanese tourists were killed and 11 injured when a knife-wielding man went on a rampage after ramming his car into a shop outside a luxury Guam resort, stunning the Paciﬁc nation Wednesday. The attack occurred late Tuesday when the man crashed his car into a store, before jumping out and stabbing bystanders.

KATHMANDU: A Tibetan man is in critical condition after setting himself on ﬁre in Nepal on Wednesday, police said, the 100th self-immolation bid since 2009 according to a toll by Tibet’s exiled government. Police spokesman Keshav Adhikari told AFP that the exile doused himself in petrol and lit himself in a restaurant.

SYDNEY: Australia’s mining industry Wednesday attacked what it termed an “obsession” with taxing the booming sector, after revenues from the government’s resources proﬁts tax fell well below forecasts. “The new Minerals Resource Rent Tax must be kept in perspective,” the council declared in an advertisement in major newspapers.

UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned a deadly blast in a minibus on the Turkey-Syria border amid concern that violence in Syria would spill over to its neighbors. The vehicle exploded on Monday in the buffer zone between Turkey’s Cilvegozu border crossing and Syria’s Bab al-Hawa post.

The social network is currently being sued for its use of the ‘like’ button, a feature that was patented by Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer in 1998, ﬁve years before Facebook’s launch. The patents were granted as part of the functionality of Surfbook, a social diary created by Van Der Meer that allowed users to “like” each other’s content. Van Der Meer has since passed away, but the patent holder – Rembrandt Social Media – is seeking legal action against Facebook.

NUMEROLOGY

5,000

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Peruvian archeologists have discovered a temple believed to be about 5,000 years old at the ancient El Paraiso archeological site in a valley just north of Lima, the Culture Ministry said Tuesday.

THAI ARMY BASE ATTACK Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrestplagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said Wednesday, in a major assault that left at least 16 militants dead. In the unusually brazen attack, one of the most deadly in some eight years of violence in Thailand’s deep south, 100 militants attacked the unit in Narathiwat province, unit commander Captain Somkiat Pholprayoon said. “Sixteen militants were conﬁrmed dead after the attack,” he told reporters at the scene; the attackers were in army fatigues.

The more I think about it, the better I feel deep in my heart. Kim Yong-Il A North Korean citizen was quoted as saying by KCNA; the state media reported that the nuke test news were recieved by their people with lot of excitement.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Technology DELL BUYBACK

BEST MOVE?

NEW YORK: Dell said that its proposed $24.4 billion private equity buyout plan is “in the best interests of stockholders,” brushing aside criticism from a key investor that it undervalues the tech giant. In a statement filed with securities regulators, Dell released a brief comment which it said was in response to inquiries on the matter. It said a special committee of its board considered “an array of strategic alternatives” and had “retained a prominent management consultant to help it assess the company’s strategic position.” “Based on that work, the board concluded that the proposed all-cash transaction is in the best interests of stockholders,” the statement said. “The transaction offers an attractive and immediate premium for stockholders and shifts the risks facing the business to the buyer group. In addition, and importantly, the go-shop process provides stockholders an opportunity to determine if there are alter-

Dell says the buyout was necessary to ease stock market pressure on the company.

natives that are superior to the present offer.” The statement came after an investment firm claiming to be the largest outside shareholder in Dell said the proposal to take the firm private “grossly undervalues” the computer maker. Southeastern Asset Management, which claims to hold 8.5 percent of Dell shares on behalf of clients, said it would fight the proposal and noted its objections to the deal in a letter to the board of directors, also filed with US securities regulators. Dell unveiled its plan to go private

Tuesday in a deal giving founder Michael Dell a chance to reshape the former number one PC maker away from the spotlight of Wall Street, with the backing of equity investment firm Silver Lake and a loan from Microsoft. The company said it had signed “a definitive” agreement to give shareholders $13.65 per share in cash — a premium of 25 percent over Dell’s closing share price on January 11, before reports of the deal circulated. The move, which would delist the company from stock markets, could ease some pressure on Dell, which is cash-rich but has seen profits slump, as it tries to reduce dependence on the slumping market for personal computers.

Stifel Nicolaus said its “sum of the parts analysis” values Dell in the range of $16 to $17 a share, some 20 percent more than the buyout offer. Dell shares gained 0.5 percent to close at $13.70. A research note by the brokerage Stifel Nicolaus said its “sum of the parts analysis” values Dell in the range of $16 to $17 a share, using EV/EBIT multiples, or some 20 percent more than the buyout offer. The analysts said investors “should consider” Southeastern’s valuation analysis “and question the changes in Dell’s forward outlook.” Barclays analyst Hale Holden said that as a result of the investor concern, “speculation has shifted to concerns that the deal may not be consummated. This is not unexpected since it follows closely the pattern of other large management-led buyouts.” AFP

INTEL ON INTEL Erik Huggers, GM of Intel Media, has confirmed that the company is, in fact, working on providing television over the internet, and it plans to do so with new consumer hardware that Huggers described as something with "beautiful industrial design." He says the service will be relatively full-featured: "we will have live television, catch-up television, on-demand, [and] a set of applications." The hardware will also include a camera — which can be turned off — that will apparently watch users as they watch TV (including, possibly, for targeting ads). Huggers said one use case for the camera could include synchronising viewing with viewers for a "real social experience."

ROLL OUT BEGINS Google has started rolling out a minor update to Android Jelly Bean devices, starting with its Nexus ﬂagship ones. The update 4.2.2 is being pushed as an over the air update and is coming for devices including Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. The chances of older devices such as Nexus S getting this update are slim, so those interested might need to look at forums such as XDA for ROMs. Updates include changes in the download interface, quick setting toggles and new system sounds.

DISAPPOINTING!

Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer said the company's search partnership with Microsoft was not delivering the market share gains or the revenue boost that it should. "One of the points of the alliance is that we collectively want to grow share rather than just trading share with each other," Mayer said at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco. In her ﬁrst appearance at an investor conference since taking the reins, Mayer said she planned to prune mobile apps and reiterated her focus on enticing consumers to spend more time on Yahoo's online properties, in order to display more money-making ads.

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Comment Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou Poet

The immortal Sir Alex THE HUMAN CONDITION Dean Williams

hen Pope Benedict XVI decided to retire from papal life the world was stunned. But once the dust of surprise settled they nodded in understanding. Here was an 85-year-old man who felt the travails of age were too much to bear, at least when it came to carrying out his duties as spiritual leader of over one billion Roman Catholics. Who can blame him. But there’s another man, who at 73, is in charge of one of the world’s largest and most popular football clubs, Manchester United. This is Sir Alex Ferguson’s 27th year as manager of the club and during that time his passion for the sport and the club has not dimmed a candela. Watch him as he vigorously chews gum on the touchline. His face taking on a deepening shade of crimson as referees fail to spot fouls or his players don’t heed the hairdryer they got at half time. Here is a man who not only loves his job, but revels in the career he has chosen. Alex Ferguson is a man who believes that death swiftly succeeds retirement and he has seen that first hand. “My father retired on his 65th birthday, and one year later he was dead," Ferguson once said, "The worst you can do is put your slippers on.” Ferguson will carry this heavy burden until he is physically unable to do so. Tonight as he gets set to face Jose Mourinho in Madrid he will see a man 20 years younger than him, a good friend, and probable successor, but Ferguson will give no quarter. As for retirement? As Ferguson said: Retirement’s for young people.

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS

Well, some people take to dangerous means to prove their mettle. Not many thought young Kim could shoulder the responsibility of power. but he looks to disprove his detractors by constant provocations like missile and nuke tests. Now what’s next?

WORLD PEACE

N KOREA’S NUKE TEST: WHAT DOES IT SIGNIFY? LETTERS FROM PYONGYANG Giles Hewitt

orth Korea's nuclear test opens a rare, limited window for expert evaluation of its atomic weapons programme, with an added urgency lent by Pyongyang's claim to have detonated a "miniaturised" device. Seismic monitors and "sniffer" planes capable of collecting radioactive evidence of Tuesday's test will provide the forensic material for analysts to try to determine the exact yield and nature of the underground explosion. Pyongyang said the "highlevel" test involved a "miniaturised and lighter atomic bomb" with a much greater yield than the plutonium devices it detonated in 2006 and 2009. Miniaturisation is needed to fit a warhead on a missile. South Korea's defence ministry said seismic data suggested the explosive yield was significantly higher than the two previous tests at six to seven kilotons. One key question analysts will be looking to answer was whether the North has switched from plutonium to a new and

self-sustaining nuclear weaponisation programme using uranium. Judging the type of fissile material requires the detection and analysis of xenon gases produced in the atomic explosion. "These aren't necessarily easy to find and, if the test was well contained, may not be found at all," said Paul Carroll, programme director at the Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation based in California. "The miniaturisation claim is provocative because that's exactly the technology we don't want them to have," Carroll said, adding that it was a very difficult claim to confirm or refute. The same six-seven kiloton yield could equally be achieved with a small, efficient device or a very large, inefficient one, with seismic data unable to differentiate between the two, he said. Proof that the North had mastered warhead miniaturisation would be an alarming game changer -- especially given its successful rocket launch in December which marked a major step forward in ballistic prowess. A uranium test would confirm what has long been suspected: that the North can produce weapons-grade uranium which doubles its pathways to

building more bombs in the future. A basic uranium bomb is no more potent than a basic plutonium one, but the uranium path holds various advantages for the North, which has substantial deposits of uranium ore. "One alarm it sets off is that a uranium-enrichment programme is very easy to hide," said Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the non-proliferation programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "It doesn't need a reactor like plutonium, and can be carried out using centrifuge cascades in relatively small buildings that give off no heat and are hard to detect," he added. North Korea revealed it was enriching uranium in 2010 when it allowed foreign experts

to visit a centrifuge facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex. Many observers believe the North has long been enriching weapons-grade uranium at other secret facilities. Another red flag raised by a uranium device relates to proliferation. Highly enriched uranium is the easiest fissile material to make a crude bomb from, and the technical know-how and machinery for enriching uranium is more readily transferred and sold. Scientist and nuclear expert Siegfried Hecker, who was among those shown the Yongbyon enrichment facility in 2010, had said a uranium test was the most likely scenario given Pyongyang's stated desire to boost its nuclear arsenal.

EDITORIALS North Koreans are excited: what a joke! Ab thak 89

hat the people of North Korea are excited about the nuclear test is a joke. A train driver there has been quoted as saying that he feels the moment deep in his heart. Perhaps what remains unspoken is the rumble in his tummy that comes from being underfed. On pain of death, he dare not speak of that; on pain of death he dare not speak of poverty that his nation is crippled with; on pain of death, he dare not speak of the lack of justice and other amenities that are the basic things in other nations; on pain of death, he dare not speak of his fate doomed by being born on this side of the border. Despite thousands of years of civilisation, it’s a stain on humanity that there exists a country where the caprice of a select few — here, in North Korea’s case, one — hold the whole nation hostage and put them through eternal suffering. Young Kim has no plans for giving his impoverished people (reports emerge of cannibalism, that too of fathers making meals of their kids) succour by devising reforms to provide them food and shelter, but is busy emulating his father. The latest test is like a little bad bully’s attempt to get attention and nothing else.

READERS’ VIEWS

aj Thackeray says he is only 11 cases short of a unique hundred. He cannot do anything in any other ﬁeld and so he boasts there are 89 cases against him in and outside Maharashtra. And he says he will carry on with his vitriolic speeches despite them. The latest target is state home minister RR Patil. Perhaps he can help Raj complete his 100.

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Cinema

JENNIFER ANISTON’S NEW FILM

Jennifer Aniston is set to join the ensemble cast of the new Peter Bogdanovich film She’s Funny That Way. The film, previously titled Squirrel to the Nuts, tells the story of a Broadway director who has an affair with an aspiring actress (she also happens to be a former prostitute). Aniston will reportedly play a therapist .

SENDING THE CHILLS

MOVIE OF THE WEEK

Murder 3 It is the sequel to the 2011 ﬁlm, Murder 2. The movie starts with a hot-shot fashion and wildlife photographer Vikram (Randeep Hooda) and his affair with a waitress from a lounge, Nisha (Sara Loren). She moves in with him in his palatial house outside the city. The old world house, made decades ago is as beautiful as scary it is. It holds many secrets for Nisha to unearth along with the mysterious disappearance of Vikram’s former girlfriend Roshni (Aditi Rao Hydari).

DID YOU KNOW...

Argo

FRIGHT NIGHTS BACK ON Bollywood’s tryst with horror films has had its share of ups and downs over the years. However, horror films these days have a different story to tell. We trace the coming of age of this genre which seems to be back in vogue.

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n 1949, Indian filmgoers were introduced to the concept of reincarnation with Kamal Amrohi’s Mahal, which had Ashok Kumar and Madhubala playing the lead roles. Although it wasn’t a horror film in the conventional sense, it did had a supernatural twist to it and for that alone Mahal is credited as the first horror film made in India. It’s been more than 60 years since Mahal released and the horror genre has had its share of ups and downs — right from being extremely scary to outrageously hilarious. Today, the tone of horror films has changed considerably and the focus is primarily on ghosts who lurk in the dark to

spook unsuspecting characters and when you add a little bit of sex, VFX and cutting edge sound effects, it turns out to be a perfect recipe for a horror film. From the days of Kamal Amrohi’s Mahal to Bees Saal Baad, a 1962 superhit film directed by Biren Nag, the themes explored in horror films were more or less similar in the first couple of decades. Revenge was one such common theme which was an integral part of films like Gumnaam, Bhoot Bangla. Madhumati, directed by Bimal Roy, is based on the theme of reincarnation and it’s considered to be one of the most influential films in the genre. While most horror films made till 1960s featuring top stars enjoyed a tremendous fan following, the genre took a new turn with the arrival of Ramsay

Brothers in the 70s. Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche, directed by Ramsay Brothers, was a game changer in this genre and the film dabbled with zombies. Jaani Dushman, a cult horror film directed by Rajkumar Kohli, featuring Sunil Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar, Shatrughan Sinha and Jeetendra became one of the highest hits of 1979. Despite such big hits, the genre lost its sheen in the 80s and most horror films had a liberal dose of sex and cliched plots. Ramsay brothers continue to churn out umpteen number of films and few films like Veerana and Purana Mandir became big hits. In early 90s, RGV made a big splash with Raat which was quite spooky. The film which resurrected the genre was Vikram Bhatt’s Raaz which released in 2002. The

film’s success inspired two more highly successful sequels in the past 10 years. On the other hand, RGV became fascinated with the genre and delivered films like Bhoot, Phoonk among many others. Of late, filmmakers have found a way to add a new twist to this genre. Ragini MMS was quite a bold film. Thanks to the success of few such films since early 2000s, horror films have found a new set of audience and producers like Mahesh Bhatt and even Ekta Kapoor have come forth to produce horror films. This year, there are at least three horror and supernatural thrillers lined up for release including Ek Thi Daayan, Aatma and Ragini MMS 2. Horror films have come a long way indeed and how!

is making box ofﬁce history as it hits $200 million in worldwide ticket sales. The Oscar best picture contender, picking up one trophy after another, has earned nearly $124 million domestically and $76.1 million internationally. Over the weekend, Argo's theatre count upped from roughly 900 locations to 1,405, unheard of in a ﬁlm's 18th week in release.

TRENDING...

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Amanda Seyfried is now in talks to join Seth MacFarlane's sophomore effort. Should she sign on, she would play the role of MacFarlane's girlfriend, who leaves him after he "chickens out of a gunﬁght." The story continues as he searches for a way to win back her heart, eventually meeting the wife of an outlaw (Theron) who teaches him how to shoot.

Those sweet, chattering Minions certainly are turning into small, yellow cash cows for Universal. Despicable Me has spawned not just a sequel, but also a Minions spin-off, which has just locked in Sandra Bullock for the lead voice.The plot picks up in 1960 (before they meet Despicable's Gru) where the little guys are in a collective funk after wiping out all their previous masters.

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spotlight

LOVE NOTES FOR YOUR HEART

Kismet is hosting a pre-Valentine's party tonight. DJ MA Fazia will be behind the console belting out the latest chartbusters. Head to the club to let go.

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FASHION GIG

Presentation of designer JJ Valaya's new collection Azrak turned out to be a chic affair with guests turning up in their glamourous best. 8

1 Jwala Gutta 2 Ajita Reddy 3 Sudha, Swetha 4 Jyotsna 5 Deepika, Ditya 6 Prasuna Reddy 7 Harshavardhan, Kamal 8 Neeru 9 Shruti, Girish 10 Satpreet 11 JJ Valaya

SHADES OF PINK With Valentine's Day around the corner, members of Pink Ladies Club turned up in pink for Zumba workshop held by trainer Vijaya at Carbon on Tuesday.

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SHOP TILL YOU DROP

Ladies were seen having a gala time at Taj Krishna where a special Valentine's Day exhibition and sale was organised by Akriti.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

health

STRESS IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS LOWERS IMMUNITY

Being jittery about close relationships acts as a chronic stressor and can compromise immunity, suggests an American research. Researchers from Ohio State University's Institute for Behavioural Medicine Research queried married couples about relationships and collected saliva and blood samples to test their levels of stress.

PREGNANCY WEEK

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hen they conceive itself, the mother’s health and diet should be good,” said Dr Saraswathi Ramesh, consultant gynecologist at Anugraha Vittal Hospital, Bangalore. “If they don’t take proper nutrients, the baby’s growth will be less.” Parameters such as haemoglobin levels fluctuate during pregnancy. To avoid complications, a proper diet needs to be followed. These are some of the things that need to be included in your diet at different stages of pregnancy.

Doctors say the requirement of all body nutrients go up during pregnancy. Having a proper, balanced diet becomes very important. defects.” Folic acid deficiency can lead to abnormalities in the baby, and neural tubal defects (like no backbone or skull), said Dr Ramesh. These supplements have to be continued for the first three months.

SECOND TRIMESTER

Calcium and iron requirements go up during this time. Though you can get 20 per cent of nutrients from the supplements prescribed by the doctor, the remaining 80 per cent needs to be included in the diet itself, said Dr Adikane. “Iron, zinc and calcium are given as part of the medication by gynecologists,” she said. “Calcium requirement is around

1,000 mg per day and iron around 30-40 mg.” Dates, leafy vegetables and fruits form an important part of the diet. Even after delivery, iron supplements need to be continued, said Dr Ramesh, to compensate for the blood loss during pregnancy. “Omega 3 fatty acids can be taken after the first three months. Non vegetarians can take fish and eggs.” Milk products can fulfill the everyday calcium requirements, Dr Adikane said. Ragi is rich in both iron and calcium. Soya milk and egg also have high protein content. “Vitamin C is important for good iron absorption. Amla, santra, lemon, sweet lime can be taken.”

THIRD TRIMESTER

Doctors advise continuing the balanced diet for the third trimester as well. “Vitamin deficiency can lead to premature births, infection, low birth rate, low IQ etc,” said Dr Ramesh, “chances of bleeding will also be more. Protein rich food is recommended.” She said water intake should be high as women are more prone to urinary tract infection during this time. Women are also prone to gestational diabetes and hypertension during pregnancy, if salt intake is high, said Dr Adikane. “Constipation is a major problem with iron supplements. Barley water acts as a diuretic.”

FIRST TRIMESTER

The first three months are very important, said Dr Charita Adikane, chief dietician at Apollo Hospital, Secunderabad. Many women experience morning sickness and the diet is very important. “Any doctor will definitely put the woman on folic acid supplements,” she said. “This is when the baby’s initial growth — spine and bone development — take place. Deficiency can lead to a lot of complications and neurological

Do not overeat

omen tend to be pampered during pregnancy with too much to eat, Dr Adikane said. “Those who are overweight, whose BMI is already high, we ask them not to gain more than 7-8 kgs during pregnancy. Those with an ideal BMI can put on up to 10-15 kgs. Only then the weight of the fetes will be normal.” She said 20-30 grams of fat per day is sufficient, with an inclusion of dry fruits and nuts in the diet.

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PIONEERS

My Tracks

Myoclonus

Brain loses cells fast

Louis Pasteur

My Tracks records your path, speed, distance, and elevation while you walk, run, bike, or do anything else outdoors. While recording, you can view your data live, annotate your path, and hear periodic voice announcements of your progress. With My Tracks, you can share your GPS tracks and stats online as well.

Myoclonus is a brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles. It describes a medical sign and, generally, is not a diagnosis of a disease. Brief twitches are perfectly normal. The myoclonic twitches are usually caused by sudden muscle contractions; they also can result from brief lapses of contraction. Contractions are called positive myoclonus; relaxations are called negative myoclonus.

The brain reaches its maximum weight, three pounds, at age 20 but begins to lose cells at a rate of 50,000 per day by the age of 30. A baby's brain has its full complement of neurons by the sixth month of gestation and grows at a rate of more than 13,000 neurons per second up until this time.

Born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, France, Dr Louis Pasteur discovered that microbes were responsible for souring alcohol and came up with the process of pasteurisation, where bacteria is destroyed by heating beverages. His work in germ theory also led him and his team to create vaccinations for anthrax and rabies. Pasteur's ﬁrst vaccine discovery was in 1879, with a disease called chicken cholera.

health WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

BREAKTHROUGH

STUDY

IBM puts supercomputer to work on cancer

The supercomputer, which gained fame by defeating two champions in a quiz show, has been sifting through some 600,000 pieces of medical evidence.

Asthma drug could treat diabetes

WASHINGTON: IBM is putting its Watson supercomputer to work fighting cancer, in what is described as the first commercial program of its kind to use “big data” to help patients with the disease. The US computing giant last week unveiled its initiative with health insurer WellPoint and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The supercomputer, which gained fame by defeating two human champions in the “Jeopardy!" quiz show, has been sifting through some 600,000 pieces of medical evidence, two million pages of text from 42 medical journals and clinical trials in oncology research. This can speed up the way data is

analysed to make the best diagnosis and find the optimal treatment, says Craig Thompson, Sloan-Kettering’s president. “It can take years for the latest developments in oncology to reach all practice settings," Thompson said. “The combination of transformational technologies found in Watson with our cancer analytics and decision-making process has the potential to revolutionise the accessibility of information for the treatment of cancer in communities across the country and around the world." IBM first announced plans to work with WellPoint in 2011,

and last year began receiving data from the New York research hospital which specializes in cancer. The first application will work with 1,500 lung cancer cases, where clinicians and analysts are training Watson to extract and interpret physician notes, lab results and clinical research. The Maine Center for Cancer Medicine and Westmed Medical Group will be two centers testing the service and providing feedback to WellPoint, IBM and Memorial SloanKettering. “IBM’s work with WellPoint and Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center repre-

sents a landmark collaboration in how technology and evidence based medicine can transform the way in which health care is practiced," said Manoj Saxena at IBM. “These breakthrough capabilities bring forward the first in a series of Watson-based technologies, which exemplifies the value of applying big data and analytics and cognitive computing to tackle the industry’s most pressing challenges." The program is being commercialised under the name Interactive Care Insights for Oncology, powered by Watson. Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas Watson, can ingest tens of million pages of data in just seconds. AFP

WASHINGTON: Amlexanox, a drug prescribed for asthma in Japan, also reverses obesity, diabetes and fatty liver in mice, according to a new study by US researchers. “One of the reasons that diets are so ineffective in producing weight loss for some people is that their bodies adjust to the reduced calories by also reducing their metabolism, so that they are ‘defending’ their body weight," says Alan Saltiel, director of the University of Michigan’s Life Sciences Institute (LSI), which conducted the study. “Amlexanox seems to tweak the metabolic response to excessive calorie storage in mice," adds Saltiel. Different formulations of amlexanox are currently prescribed to treat asthma in Japan and canker sores in the US, the journal Nature Medicine reports. The study appears to confirm and extend the notion that the genes IKKE and TBK1 play a crucial role for maintaining metabolic balance, a discovery published by the Saltiel lab in 2009, according to an LSI statement. “Amlexanox appears to work in mice by inhibiting two genes IKKE and TBK1 - that we think together act as a sort of brake on metabolism," Saltiel said. IANS

RESEARCH

Tweaked protein prevents diastolic heart failure WASHINGTON: Researchers have identified and tweaked a specific protein molecule, parvalbumin, to prevent diastolic heart failure when its pumping mechanism goes haywire. Diastolic heart failure arises when peak calcium levels, required for heart’s squeezing action, don’t drop off quickly enough to permit the organ to relax. Then the lower left heart cham-

ber (left ventricle) does not fill with enough blood to be pumped out to the body. University of Minnesota researchers, led by Joseph M. Metzger, professor of integrative biology and physiology, optimised the parvalbumin protein as ParvE101Q, to soak up excess

calcium at a precise instant, allowing the heart to relax efficiently after contraction, the journal Nature Medicine reports. The advance offers a solid conceptual step forward in solving the puzzle of diastolic heart failure. The next step will be determining the best possible small

molecule or gene delivery mechanism for the protein, which should allow the discovery to be used in clinics, according to a Minnesota statement. Researchers believe they may have found a unique clinical application to treat diastolic heart failure. “We hope this type of discovery may one day help pave the way to a better way to treat patients," said Metzger. IANS

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Entertainment IMPRESSED BY THE CO-STAR

I would love to work with Anushka again :

PRABHAS

rabhas’ latest film Mirchi is making a killing at the box office. According to trade analysts, the film collected a share of close `15 crore in the first three days from Andhra Pradesh alone and buzz is that the film is on track to collect a share of more than `25 crore in the first week. In US, the film has turned out to be the biggest hit in Prabhas’ career so far and it collected nearly `3 crore in its opening weekend. The entire film’s cast and crew thanked the audience for giving a thumbs up to the film and credited the success to team effort. Koratala Siva has directed the film and it also stars Anushka and Richa Gangopadhyay in lead roles. Vamshi and Pramod have produced it under UV Creations banner. Sharing his experiences, Prabhas said, “Koratala Siva is a multi-talented director and I loved the way he wrote the romantic scenes in the film. I have already requested him to consider me if he plans to make a fullfledged romantic entertainer.” Talking about his co-star Anushka, Prabhas said, “Anushka is a gem of a person to work with. She puts a smile on every person’s face she comes across and she’s extremely dedicated when it comes to her work. The whole set would suddenly cheer up with her entry. I would love to work with her again and again and I hope she does more films under the UV Creations banner.” Mirchi is the second time Prabhas and Anushka are teaming up. The duo had earlier acted together in Billa. Incidentally, the two will once again share the screen space in SS Rajamouli’s upcoming film Baahubali.

CINE BYTES Paisa’s first look to be out on February 24

he first look of Nani’s upcoming film Paisa is going to be launched on February 24, on the eve of his birthday. Krishna Vamsi is directing the film. Catherine Tresa is the lead actress. The film is said to be a political drama set in Hyderabad.

Paradesi to be screened at Cannes?

ala’s upcoming ﬁlm Paradesi, which narrates the story of a group of plantation workers in Tamil Nadu who used to work in a tea estate in 1930s, will reportedly be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Atharva, Vedhika and Dhansika have played the lead roles in the ﬁlm.

Okkadine set to release tomorrow

ara Rohit, Nithya Menen starrer Okkadine is finally gearing up for release on February 14. Directed by Srinivas Raga, the film was originally supposed to release in December but it was postponed owing to financial troubles. The film is said to be an action entertainer and the music has been scored by Karthik.

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

ON THE LOOK OUT

CINE BYTES

'Aatma 2' is definitely happening: Suparn Verma

irector Suparn Verma, who is all set to release his horror film Aatma, says the sequel has already been planned. " Aatma 2 is definitely happening," he said at the launch of the first look of Aatma held Monday evening. The film stars Bipasha Basu and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. IANS

IMPORTANT TO BE SEEN IN FILMS REGULARLY AMRITA PURI

mrita Puri, who will be seen next in Abhishek Kapoor’s Kai Po Che, says it’s important for actors to remain in limelight. Amrita, 29, made her debut with Sonam Kapoor in Aisha(2010) and then appeared in Blood Money (2012). “I have been getting offers but nothing that excited me. It is important for an actress to be seen and doing films. But then you can’t just do films for the heck of it,” Amrita said. “I also in between do theatre, do plays,” she added. Amrita comes from a business family and insists that it’s not easy for an outsider in the industry to survive. “The journey is not easy for an outsider. It’s tough for sure to be in this industry,” Amrita said. Even as an outsider, Amrita does not shy away from approaching directors. “I do meet directors for work. I do approach them. I wish to work with Anurag Kashyap, Anurag Basu, Vikramaditya Motwane, Dibarkar Banerjee, Nagesh Kukonoor. I have met them and shown my interest to work with them,” she said. IANS

I have become the face of fear: Bipasha

ipasha Basu seems to have become the common face of horror films. After Raaz 3, she will be seen in Aatma. "I have become the face of fear. I don't mind being a trend setter. Horror is a genre of entertainment and if it has the producers and the audience, then why not," she said at the launch of the first look of the film held on Monday evening. IANS

Grand Masti, crazier than Masti says Aftab

fter the success of sex comedy Masti, its second part is coming out soon and actor Aftab Shivdasani insists the franchise is "a bundle of entertainment" and there is nothing "common" between the two." The only thing which is common is the ﬁlmmaker and the three actors. The rest of the story, setting and even the wives are different. It is a franchise and not a sequel," Aftab said. IANS.

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013

D E F E N D S

mma Watson is speaking out about Kristen Stewart and coming to the defence of her fellow young star. The Perks of Being a Wallflower actress was recently asked about Kristen’s 2012 cheating scandal with Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. “Kristen is human, just like everybody else, and she’s so young. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone. It’s not fair to consider them matters of public interest,” she told Italian Vogue, via The New York Daily News. “Those who criticised her are the same people that think that being rich and famous is like being covered in some kind of magic powder that makes life perfect,” the 22-year-old actress continued. “Nothing can go wrong in your wonderful world.” Adding, “For these people, Kristen deserves all the bad things that have been thrown at her because she had an amazing life and she ruined it.” Emma did however admit that she gets the public’s fascination of Kristen’s personal life, which remained very private until the scandal broke in July 2012. “On one hand, I can understand why it happened: People felt really involved in her relationship with Robert Pattinson. But it’s also true that they both have done everything in their power to keep their relationship as far from the public eye as possible,” she told the mag.

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EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES

CINE BYTES John Cho welcomes a baby girl

omehow, John Cho found time to father another kid. The Go On actor has welcomed a baby girl with wife Kerri Higuchi, their second child together, Cho’s rep confirmed Monday to E! News. They’re also parents to a four-year-old son. And that's all they're saying! The threetime Harold & Kumar star is currently on the big screen in Identity Thief and he reprises his role as Sulu in the upcoming Star Trek: Into Darkness.

Mathew McConaughey getting a bit fuller

he actor, who once lost 38 pounds for his role in The Dallas Buyers Club, has shown off a fuller figure lately, most recently on the set of his new HBO series, True Detectives, in Louisiana on Friday. McConaughey's body is looking more beefy— and doesn't disappear from a side view.

James Franco debuting Gay Town art exhibit in Berlin ne day, James Franco is named O the Daytona 500 grand marshal, the next day he’s showing a very interesting solo art show. The man of many talents is currently debuting his art exhibit titled Gay Town in Berlin, which features painting, video, drawing, film, sculpture and photography to coincide with the Berlin Film Festival.

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QUICK CROSSWORD enced 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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host in '52 52 Planning meeting input 54 Contented cat sound 56 Hyperbolic function 58 Wedding notice word 60 Marina sights 63 Like some awakenings 64 Kind of oil 67 Geographical statistic 68 Adjust to the correct pitch 69 Dead duck 70 Hair line 71 Ladd or Thicke 72 Diary addition

DOWN 1 Vigoda of sitcoms 2 Daytime socials 3 Small mountain lake 4 All together 5 Silver salmon (Var) 6 ABC rival 7 Burn soother 8 Legal wrongs 9 Arctic and Atlantic 10 Turning on (with ‘up’) 11 Misers 12 Farm storage

structure 13 Golfer's props 18 Trout's home 24 Put to zero 26 Professional org since 1847 27 Writer Loos 28 Not widespread 29 Rousing speech or type of watch 31 AM receiver 33 Alternative to text messages 34 Petty quarrel 37 Calendar model, perhaps 40 Race rarity 42 Tenor Enrico 45 Hair coloring 49 Sacred places of pilgrimage 51 Prayer book selection 53 Capital of South Korea 55 Kitchen appliance 56 Mouse catcher 57 Psychic radiance 59 Volcano in Sicily 61 40-day period of penitence 62 Reader of the future 65 Yellow Monopoly bill 66 Do a carwash job

Chai Time WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013 Thiruvaikumar

STAR POWER for 14-2-2013

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

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

With your wise action you will be able to march ahead. Those who are jealous of you might spread wrong rumors about you; be alert and careful. But deal with the issue patiently. Travel and expenses are likely to go up because of children.

STRIP TEASE AGNES

You take bold decisions, which will yield desired results. You will win over enemies who try to put roadblocks in your way. Gains likely for those dealing in share market. Friendship with VIP friends likely. Influence and respect is set to increase.

You complete all work successfully; never boast of these achievements. Your stock is set to pile up. Happy events to take place at home. Those deprived of child for a long will soon get favourable news. Govt works get completed at a good speed.

You look into children’s problem and get them resolved to their satisfaction and make them feel relaxed. Travel likely to increase. Self-confidence and willpower levels will be at their high. Expenses are likely to go up, which will worry you.

You march ahead at a good speed towards achieving your goals. Financial position will be very comfortable with which most of the debts get cleared. Marriage talk will progress and finalise soon. Loan for construction of house gets sanctioned.

You never wait for a chance or opportunity but create them for yourself. Unexpected higher expenses along with work burden might upset you. Avoid important decision on consulting inexperienced persons. Financial position looks good.

Your changed approach will benefit in a big way. New ideas will spark in your mind and increase your income in multiple ways. Your charisma is likely to attract the opposite sex and others too. Blood relatives might embarrass you.

Long-pending minor dreams get fulfilled. A strained relationship will resume with them coming in search of you. You will benefit through VIP friends who are in politics. Purchase of land or house will smoothly get completed and bring gain.

You adjust well with friends and blood relatives. You learn the in and out of daily life and act accordingly with a determination. You act briskly and cheerfully and complete all pending work at a lightning speed. Plan well your children’s future.

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ARIES:

GEMINI:

Knight of Swords – You’re in funster mode today -seeking adventure and some wild fun. You look for laughter in the simplest of life’s joys. Enjoy yourself!

LEO:

The High Priestess – You achieve calm and peace through the familiarity of routine. It’s something like Zen meditation. Stick to the routine if it makes you feel good.

LIBRA:

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

Nine of Swords – You’re feeling edgy, restless and irritated. It might be a good idea to tell people around you to stay away till you cool off.

SAGITTARIUS:

Knight of Pentacles – You’re achieving the perfect harmony between intellect and emotion. You know when to go with gut feel and when to and use logic.

TAURUS:

Page of Pentacles – Enthusiasm and positive energy makes even the impossible possible. This energy is infectious and spurs on those around you as well.

CANCER:

The Chariot – Don’t be discouraged by others’ comments on your work. You have given you best and deserve to reward yourself for your efforts. Chin up!

VIRGO:

Six of Pentacles – You indulge in good food and music today. After the weekend, you’re in a mood to extend the happiness and good cheer through the week.

SCORPIO:

Four of Swords – You are feeling secure and stable in your situation. Stick to it for as long as you can. Any sudden change at this point is not advisable.

CAPRICORN:

Six of Swords – Overseas contacts are in focus. A trip to the west is in the offing. You meet interesting people and network rather well.

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PISCES:

Queen of Wands – You’re comfortable in the own little space you have created for yourself. It’s alright if you do not feel like socialising for some time.

NUMBER GAME

Family is in focus. You want to spend more time with family and young ones. You get inspiration and energy from near and dear ones.

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AQUARIUS: Ten of Cups –

POOCH CAFE

You are very time conscious and expect others also to fall in line with you, which might be difficult. You will take bold decisions on your own and they will meet a huge success. Though income is good expenses do not permit saving.

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Five of Cups – Some kind of loss is indicated. You realize you do not get everything in life, and will have to make a tradeoff. Be sensible and practical about it.

NON SEQUITUR

New plans and efforts will be completed successfully. Court verdict will go in your favour. There is a deed to reduce expenses and discussions, which might land you in trouble. Tensions because of children will be over; they understand need.

SUDUKO

Your skills will be exposed and will earn you appreciation. Son is likely to get a good career opportunity. Benefits through govt likely. You will achieve success even in very challenging tasks. New plot will be purchased by selling an old one.

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ichael Haneke, the Austrian filmmaker known for his films like The Piano Teacher, Cache and White Ribbon, once remarked — “Art doesn’t offer answers, only questions”. It couldn’t be truer in his case, considering the wide range of films he has made since 1989. He leaves so much open to the audience’s interpretation and people trying to find the answers of the questions he raises in his films is remarkable to say the least. Having begun his career as a film critic in 1967, Haneke ended up as a director for television by mid 70s before making his first feature film The Seventh Continent, a film inspired from a true story of an Austrian middleclass family that committed suicide for no reason, in 1989. The film gave a glimpse of the bleak and disturbing acts of violence which became quite common in his film all the way till Caché. The film which made him a noted filmmaker was Funny Games, a psychological thriller about two young men who hold a family hostage and torture them with sadistic games. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and it was particularly notorious for breaking the fourth wall as one of the characters kept addressing the audience amidst the violence onscreen. After Funny Games and another film titled Code Unknown, Michael Haneke made The Piano Teacher in 2001 which was a path breaking film in his career. The film starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel is about Erika, a

piano professor who finds a way to overcome her sexual repression when she meets a young boy named Walter Klemmer. Despite its explicit and provocative content, the film was a major critical and commercial success and Isabelle Huppert won plenty of awards, including a Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. Caché, a 2005 French film, saw the acclaimed director addressing issues like identity and migration and it was hailed as a masterpiece. The film is about a Parisian family whose life is disturbed when they receive a set of surveillance tapes of their own residence from an anonymous source. Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche are absolutely brilliant in the film and the fact that Haneke throws in numerous references to how the French treat the immigrants, especially f r o m

Michael Haneke is one of the few directors today who doesn’t shy away from addressing complex issues like religion, love and relationships. Instead of finding answers, his films raise plenty of questions about life and existence in general. That’s what makes Haneke and his films so profound.

Algeria, never ceases to amuse. Sudden outbursts of violence and a harrowing climax are commonly seen in his film and Caché, was almost perfect in terms of the command which Haneke has on his storytelling and characters. In 2009, he won his first Palme d’Or award for The White Ribbon, a black and white film set in a German village just before World War I. The film was a confluence of several themes like loss of innocence, religion and suppression of the poor and it’s about how a single incident snowballs into a monster which engulfs the lives of nearly everyone in the village. Haneke described the film as the origin of every type of terrorism, be it of political or religious nature. The characters in the film are caught up in a gamut of prejudices and unflinching faith in an ideology over voice of reason. In the end, the film turns out to be quite surreal, profound and equally devastating. His latest film Amour, starring JeanLouis

Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert, is his most personal film so far. Inspired from a story from his life, Haneke wove a story about an old couple where the husband has to come to terms with the impending death of his wife. Both Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, who are in their 80s, are perfect in their roles and Haneke leaves behind several metaphors and dreamlike

He leaves so much open to the audience’s interpretation and people trying to find the answers of the questions he raises in his films is remarkable to say the least. sequences to describe the pain which the couple endures towards the end of their lives. It’s not without a reason that Amour has won a Palme D’Or, Golden Globe, BAFTAs and scored five Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director. Michael Haneke once remarked, “A feature film is twenty-four lies per second” and if that’s true, Haneke is one of the greatest liars ever.

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TENNIS

BRAZIL OPEN

Rebel players form ITPA CHENNAI: In their bid to make their voices heard by the tennis administration, India’s rebel tennis players formed the Indian Tennis Players Association (ITPA) with former Davis Cup captain Jaidip Mukerjea as its interim president. Besides Mukerjea, the other founding members are Mahesh Bhupathi, Enrico Piperno, Manisha Malhotra, Prahalad Srinath, Somdev Devvarman, Rohan Bopanna, Aditya Sachdeva Mustafa Ghouse and All India Tennis Association (AITA) vice-president Karti P. Chidambaram. India’s only Olympic tennis medallist Leander Paes, however, is not among the founding members. ITPA in a statement said its membership is open to all current and former international and national tennis players. “It will primarily function as a forum and platform to represent the professional interests of its members and, thereby, improve the standard of tennis in the country,” ITPA said. IANS

Nadal in second round Spain’s Rafael Nadal teamed up with Argentina’s David Nalbandian to post a three-set doubles victory in the Brazil Open. SAO PAULO: Rafael Nadal teamed up with Argentina’s David Nalbandian to post a three-set doubles victory in the Brazil Open here late Tuesday. The world number five, back on a court after his defeat in the Vina del Mar Open in Chile Sunday, and his partner won 6-3, 3-6, 11-9 in just 79 minutes over fellow Spaniards Pablo Andujar and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the first round of the ATP clay court event. The third set was hard fought with Nadal and Nalbandian saving two match points before prevailing 11-9. The Spanish star was mobbed by adoring fans as he left the court. The match started two hours behind schedule and Nadal, wearing a white knee brace, was greeted with thunderous applause when he appeared on the court. The winning duo was to

The world number five and his partner won 6-3, 3-6, 11-9 over fellow Spaniards Pablo Andujar and Guillermo GarciaLopez. play in the second round Wednesday. As the top seed, Nadal, an 11-time Grand Slam champion enjoyed a first-round singles bye and will open his singles campaign Thursday. He lost the singles and doubles finals Sunday at his comeback event in Vina del Mar, Chile following a seven-month knee injury absence. “I am a bit tired after a hard week in Chile. But it was positive. The process of recovery fol-

LEAGUE CRICKET Apex CC loses

Kings Cruise for feature D. Netto trained Kings Cruise ran 3rd in race No 204, will be fancied in The Loose Cannon Plate about 1100 metres, to be run on First Extra Day of Hyderabad Winter races 2013-14 here at Malakpet. 1st Race: The Flag March Plate (Div-I)(about) 1100 Metres,Cat-III. A handicap for horses, 4 year olds and upwards, rated upto 25. 1-45 P.M. 1 Art Connoisseur 61 (Fayaz) S Nayak 1 2 Break Away 61 (Satheesh) B Dileep 4 3 Home Coming 61 (Kassam) Ravinder Singh 2 4 Young Sapper 61 (LaxmanS) Harinder Singh 6 5 Bernabeu 60.5 (A Sharma) J Vikas 10 6 Lady Of Grace 59 (Hassan) Ch K Chary 3 7 Sugar Deal 57.5 (Hassan) A M Tograllu 5 8 Architect 56.5 (Srinagesh) Nitin Singh 8 9 Bold Brigade 50.5 (Kassam) K Anil 9 10 Golden Star 50 (Fayaz) G Sai Vamshi 7 11 Star Senesation 50 (Prasad R) Withdrawn Selections: 1 Young Sapper 2 Art Connoisseur 3 Bernabeu

1 Prayer Call 2 The Best Man 3 Vijetha 4th Race:The Loose Cannon Plate (about) 1100 Metres, Cat-II. A handicap for horses, 4 year olds and upward, rated upto 75. 3-15 P.M. 1 Kings Cruise 61 (Netto) A Imran Khan 6 2 Attenborough 53.5 (Fayaz) A K Pawar 2 3 Hurricane Dancer 52.5 (S Abbas) Kiran Naidu 7 4 Marquise 51 (Fayaz) G Sai Vamshi 8 5 Prince Prashant 51 (D’silva) N S Parmar 1 6 Sun Bird 50.5 (Netto) Harinder Singh 4 7 Ice Rain 49.5 (Satheesh) Nitin Singh 3 8 Kohinoor Destiny 49.5 (Vatsalya) Ajit Kumar 5 Selections: 1 Kings Cruise 2 Marquise 3 Hurricane Dancer

2nd Race:The Blzaing Saddles Plate (about) 1400 Metres,Cat-II. Terms for Maiden horses, 3 year olds only. 2-15 P.M. 1 Deal Maker 55 (Satheesh) Deep Shanker 9 2 Half Moon Bay 55 (D’Silva) S Nayak 1 3 Meri Merzi 55 (S’suddin) K Anil 7 4 Staminoizd 55 (KV Srinivas) G Sai Vamshi 10 5 Vijays Splendour 55 (LaxmanS) A M Tograllu 6 6 Vocation 55 (D’Silva) NS Parmar 5 7 Golden Flash 53.5 (PrasadR) NRawal 3 8 Kohinoor Punch 53.5 (Vatsalya) Ajit Kumar 8 9 Most Impressive 53.5 (Netto) Harinder Singh4 10 Roses In Bloom 53.5 (S Abbas) Ch K Chary 2 1 Roses in Bloom 2 Vijays Splendour 3 Most Impressive

5th Race:The Brahmaputra Plate (Div-I) (about) 1000 Metres,Cat-II. A handicap for horses, 5 year olds and upward, rated upto 75 3-45 P.M. 1 Kohinoor Supreme 61.5 (Vatsalya) N Rawal 9 2 Scubarioo 61.5 (D’Silva) J vikas 5 3 Key Note 61 (Netto) A ImranKhan 1 4 Winning Strides 58.5 (Sequeria) Deep Shanker 6 5 Aarohan 54 (PrasadR) P Sai Kumar 7 6 Rohini Star 52.5 (Srinivas R) Ravinder Singh 4 7 Sun Strikes 52.5 (D’Silva) Kuldeep Singh 3 8 Rose Queen 51 (A Sharma) C Henrique 8 9 Ann Arbor 50.5 (D’Silva) NS Parmar 2 Selections: 1 Key Note 2 Winning Strides 3 Kohinoor Supreme

3rd Race:The Flag March Plate (Div-II) (about)1100 Metres,Cat-III. A handicap for horses, 4 year olds and upward, rated upto 25. 2-45 P.M. 1 Bold Reason 61 (PrasadR) N Rawal 1 2 Emerald Touch 61 (Hassan) J Vikas 4 3 Mukhtar 61 (A Sharma) Withdrawn 0 4 The Best Man 61 (Satheesh) K Anil 5 5 Vijetha 61 (S Abbas) A ImranKhan 7 6 Icelandic 58.5 (D’Silva) Kuldeep Singh 6 7 Prayer Call 57 (KV Srinivas) G Sai Vamshi 8 8 Max Baby 53.5 (Hassan) A M Tograllu 3 9 Blue Diamond 52 (Srinagesh) Withdrawn 0 10 Aaradhya 49 (Srinagesh) NitinSingh 2 Selections:

6thRace:The Canadian Plate (about) 1400 Metres,Cat-III. A handicap for horses, 5 year olds and upeward, rated upto 50. 4-15 P.M. 1 Star Value 60.6 (S Abbas) A Imran Khan 6 2 Ziglar 60.5 (Vatsalya) Ravinder Singh 9 3 Apprise 59 (Netto) G Sai Vamshi 11 4 Palace Affairs 59 (Vatsalya) Ajit Kumar 10 5 Bang On Target 58.5 (Kassam) S Nayak 5 6 Star Striker 56 (Satheesh) K Anil 2 7 The Challenge 56 (S Abbas) A M Tograllu 8 8 Midnight Beauty 54.5 (Prasad R) N Rawal 7 9 Oscar Royal 52.5 (LaxmanS) Deep Shanker 12

10 Romantic Champ 51.5 (Fayaz) J Vikas 11 Dartos The Muscle 49 (Silvester) C Henrique 12 Enrapture 49 (S Abbas) Ch K Chary Selections: 1 Apprise 2 Ziglar 3 Romantic Champ

lows its course. As always I come here to do the best possible and hope that things turn out all right,” Nadal told a news conference here earlier Tuesday. Asked when he expected to be 100 percent fit, he responded: “I cannot know the future. If my knee allows, I will do everything possible to be at my best. “I am a player who plays with a lot passion, a lot of energy. I suppose that does not help the knee.” He said his worst moment during his seven-month absence was when he realized he could not compete for Spain and defend his title at the London Olympics. “My long-term objective is to be in Brazil in 2016 (for the Rio Summer Olympics). I am going to work to arrive in good conditions at what are likely to be my last Olympics,” he said. AFP

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7th Race:The Detroit Plate (about) 1000 Metres,CatIII. Ahandicap forhorses, 4 year olds and upward, rated upto 50. 4-45 P.M. 1 Victorous Sally 60.5 (Kassam) J Vikas 5 2 Queens Necklace 56.5 (Netto) A Imran Khan 3 3 Arudra 56 (Silvester) C Henrique 7 4 Classic Emerald 56 (D’Silva) S Nayak 9 5 Grenada 54 (D’Silva) N S Parmar 8 6 Smashing Beauty 54 (Kassam) Ch K Chary 6 7 Camacho Speed 52.5 (Prasad R) PSai Kumar 10 8 Komo Komo Komo 51.5 (Sequeria) Khurshad Alam 1 9 Deccan Queen 50.5 (Prasad R) NRawal 4 10 Joel 49.5 (Laxman S) Harinder Singh 2 Selections: 1 Queens Necklace 2 Arudra 3 Classic Emerald 8th Race:The Brahmaputra Plate (Div-II) (about) 1000 Metrres,Cat-II A handicap for horses, 5 year olds and upward, rated upto 75. 5-15 P.M. 1 Alberton Star 61.5 (Prasad R) P Sai Kumar 2 2 Bloody Mary 61.5 (D’Silva) S Nayak 6 3 Garibaldi 60.5 (D’Silva) J Vikas 4 4 One One One 54 (N Rao) K Anil 1 5 Ashleen State 52.5 (Deshmukh) A K Pawar 7 6 Combined Force 52 (Srinivas R) A M Tograllu 5 7 Travaldo 51.5 (Netto) NRawal 8 8 Phenomenal Speed 50 (S’suddin) Nitin Singh 3 Selections: 1 Alberton Star 2 Ashleen State 3 Travaldo Days Best: Queens Necklace Jackpot Race Nos: 4,5,6,7 and 8 1st Treble Race Nos: 1,2 and 3 2nd Treble Race Nos: 3,4 and 5 3rd Treble Race Nos: 6,7 and 8 Tanala pool will operate on all races where there are five or more starters.

Amberpet 305/5 (Jitender Goud 34, K Srikanth 31, S Srinivas Shastri 73, Sandeep 75, Shabbu 40) bt Gaganmahal Blues 238 (S Vamshidhar Reddy 37, K Shashank 53, Swanand 33, D Arvind 3/74, K Srikanth 3/70, Jitender Goud 3/78) Apex CC 143 (Aleemuddin 6/28) lost to Souther Stars 144/6 (Anwar Ahmed 51, Shabbir 30, Azeem 4/46) Mahaveer 153 (Deepak 31, Manas 31 n.o., SRK Prasad 4/43, DG Prakash 3/22) lost to Deccan Colts 157/7(Shiva 76)

Havok pleases HYDERABAD: Nasheeta, Shadow In TheMist and Havok pleased when the horses were excercised here this morning Sand Track 800 Metres: Deccan Queen (N.Rawal) Grigori (app)57, 600/43 They finished together. Nasheeta ( Imran Khan) 56, 600/42 Pleased. Majestic Rock (rb) 1-0, 600/45 Moved freely. Wunderabar (Nitin Singh) 58, 600/44 Moved well. Shadow In The Mist (Chary) 59, 600/45 Moved freely. Racing Ahead (Joshi) 1-3., 600/47 Easy. Fastest Finger (Joshi) 1-3, 600/48 Easy. Brahmani (app) 1-3, 600/48 Mved freely. Havok (rb) 55, 600/42 Pleased. Machine Gun (Joshi) Play The Music (app) 1-3.5, 600/48 They moved very easy. Proof (Anil) 55, 600/41.5 Pleased. Sand Track 1200 Metres: Castle Town (app) 1-29, 1000/114, 800/1-0, 600/47 Easy. Precisely That (Joshi) 1-35, 1000/1-19, 800/1-3, 600/48 Moved freely. Westminister (app) 1-33.5, 1000/1-18, 800/1-2., 600/46.5 Moved freely.

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AUSTRALIA’S TOUR OF INDIA

TIME FOR REDEMPTION One cannot fathom why the selectors have been reluctant to drop the big names. TWELFTH MAN

Babu Kalyanpur

he dropping of Gautam Gambhir for the first two Tests against Australia is a good move by the Indian selectors. There is no point carrying the burden of an out of form batsman in the squad.Gambhir is lucky that he managed to play far more matches than his form merited. The Indian selectors have been reluctant to drop the big names from time immemorial. One cannot fathom the reason behind this. The maxim that the best must play is often ignored in Indian cricket. For too long, Indian cricket has suffered from bias, regionalism and nepotism. There is absolutely no need to name a squad of fifteen for home Tests. It reeks of trying to accommodate extra baggage to please a few selectors. A squad of 13 is more than enough. All the talk about giving young players a feel of Test crick-

et is utter balderdash. The Australian selectors are the best at looking at the big picture. The way they dealt with the retired Michael Hussey is a pointer that they have the team’s interest at heart. They dropped Hussey from the one-day squad and denied him a final match at his home ground. Even vice-captain Shane Watson is under the scanner now and will not be an automatic choice in India despite his fine record in the longer version. The fact that his bowling ability has diminished due to injury has weighed on the selectors’ minds. The sad part about Indian cricket is the players do not play enough domestic games. The importance of being match fit is not in their mantra. They rather be seen doing the social rounds than get their heads down in a Ranji Trophy game. This way they not only rob themselves a chance of getting their act together but also deny many budding cricketers to learn from them. They should now learn from the example of the great Sachin

Tendulkar. He has played in quite a few Ranji Trophy matches recently and has regained his touch with big scores for Mumbai. This way he given himself a better chance to succeed against the Australians and get out of the rut of low scores. The onus lies with the selectors. They should manage the workload of the cricketers so there is no burnout. Coming back to the team, the Indian selectors have rewarded many players for their domestic performances.

ENGLAND IN NEW ZEALAND

OLYMPICS WRESTLING ISSUE

Brendon fires NZ to win

HAMILTON: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum inspired his team to a crushing 55-run win over England in the second Twenty20 international in Hamilton on Tuesday, levelling the series 1-1. Determined to make amends after being humbled in the opening fixture, New Zealand made 192 for six after being sent into bat then bowled out the tourists for 137. McCullum led from the

front with a captain’s knock of 74, including five sixes and six fours, as the Black Caps made the most of the short Seddon

Shikhar Dhawan could be in line for a Test debut. The left hander is aggressive in his approach which may be needed to put the Australian pacemen on the back foot. However, Ajinkya Rahane deserves a chance. He is a very composed player and the time has come to test him out on the big stage. Murali Vijay may well get the nod because he has played in a few Tests before and this experience may well tip the scales in his favour. The rest of the batting should

Park boundaries to punish the England attack. The hosts also produced a much improved display in the field to have England reeling at 47 for five at one point before a feisty 54 from Jos Buttler and a 22-run cameo by James Tredwell helped to make the scoreline respectable. “Credit to New Zealand, they played fantastically and took the game away from us with the bat,” England captain Stuart Broad said.

Japan ‘shocked’

TOKYO: Wrestling power Japan, which swept four gold in London, reacted with dismay Wednesday after Olympic chiefs said the 2020 Games would not include the sport, depriving the country of a rich source of medals. “I really don’t know why. I am so devastated that I don’t know what to do,” said Saori Yoshida, Japan’s undisputed wrestling queen who has won a record 13 straight Olympic and world championship golds over 10 years. Yoshida, a 55kg-class freestyle wrestler who last year received the government’s

BOXING

“People’s Honour Award” for her achievements, is the face of Tokyo’s campaign for the right to host the 2020 Games. The decision to drop wrestling, taken by the 15 members of the International Olympic Committee executive board, has yet to be ratified by all members of the body, but leaves the sport fighting with seven other disciplines for the vacant spot in seven years’ time. Japan Wrestling Federation chairman Tomiaki Fukuda expressed his frustration at the decision. AFP

INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

‘Offered $155,000 to throw bout’

SYDNEY: Veteran boxer Francois Botha Wednesday claimed he was offered Aus$150,000 (US$155,000) to throw his fight against Sonny Bill Williams, sparking an angry denial from the New Zealander’s manager. Williams, a former World

fall into place easily. Ravindra Jadeja has retained his place after a good performance against New Zealand. His utility as an allrounder will come useful. Harbhajan Singh is back again. His bowling showed vast improvements in the domestic season plus his dominance against the Australian made him a good choice. But Harbhajan must get his line right instead of straying down the middle and leg stump to be successful again. Bhuvneshwar Kumar forced himself into the Test squad due to his fine performances in the shorter version of the game. He should be picked in the starting eleven immediately as he bowls very good lengths and is accurate.With no Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma now becomes the spearhead of India’s fast bowling. If Sharma puts his erratic stuff in the cold storage and concentrates, he can rightfully earn his place at the top. With the Australian team also in a transition stage, India’s team looks good enough to challenge them.Against the Aussies, it never is easy. A stiffening of the backbone is highly recommended for the Indian players.

Cup-winning All Blacks rugby star, won the controversial heavyweight bout on points in Brisbane last Friday, which was marred by unsubstantiated reports that Botha failed a drugs test. Botha, 44, alleges Williams’ manager Khoder Nasser offered

him the money in a Brisbane park three days before the World Boxing Association fight, claiming he received a phone call asking to pick him up alone. “I wasn’t told where I was going. As we stopped at a park, my cellphone was confiscated

and was given to a guy in the car,” Botha told New Zealand’s Radio LiveSport from Durban. “Then I was being walked (by Nasser), and during this walk, I was offered Aus$150,000 to throw the fight. “I just said ‘no, I can’t do it’.”

Mushtaq not confirming deal due to backlash LAHORE: Pakistan’s Mushtaq Ahmed has signed a deal with Delhi Daredevils to work as their bowling consultant but has not made it public due to the recent backlash in India over the presence of Pakistani sportsmen there, sources said. A source in the PCB said that Mushtaq has indeed signed the contract but both parties had decided against any formal announcements. PTI

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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ROUND OF 16

Celtic dreams in tatters Celtic Park was left stunned as Juventus outplayed their opponents.

ALISTAIR WATSON Agence France-Presse GLASGOW: Juventus all but clinched their place in the last eight of the Champions League after a clinical display from the Italian champions earned them a 3-0 win over Celtic at Parkhead here on Tuesday. Celtic manager Neil Lennon surprised everyone before kick-off as he handed Efe Ambrose a starting place despite the defender playing in Nigeria’s Africa Cup of Nations final win over Burkina Faso on Sunday. But the gamble went horribly wrong with the defender at fault for two of Juve’s deadly away goals. Celtic got off to a nightmare start when Ambrose was caught out by the

The Hoops showed the intensity they produced to pick up a famous win over Barcelona in the group stages as they laid siege to the Juve goal, with Victor Wanyama and Kris Commons both testing Gianluigi Buffon. flight of Federico Peluso’s long ball in the third minute, allowing Alessandro Matri to get in behind him and fire the ball over the line despite Kelvin Wilson’s desperate attempted clearance on the line.

The Hoops then showed the intensity they had produced to pick up a famous win over Barcelona in the group stages as they laid siege to the Juve goal, with Victor Wanyama and Kris Commons both testing Gianluigi Buffon with strikes. But the Italians weathered the storm and increased their lead in the 77th minute when Marchisio smashed a shot past Fraser Forster. Mirko Vucinic finished low through Forster’s legs in the 83rd minute after Ambrose had been caught in possession by Marchisio as Juventus ended any remaining Celtic hopes. “That’s the harsh reality of football at this level," a clearly disappointed Lennon said. “We didn’t obviously get off to a great start but our reaction to the goal was fantastic and for 70 or 80 minutes we were the better side. “But it wasn’t to be and the second goal burst the bubble a little bit. When you make defensive mistakes at this level you get punished and that was the case tonight.” Juventus coach Antonio Conte was delighted with how his side handled a hostile crowd. “It was a difficult match and in this atmosphere with Celtic playing with the intensity they did we could have lost the match," he said. “But my players kept their heads and showed great maturity and overall it was an excellent result for us." Things could have been different for the home side, however. Celtic had started brightly, but then a lapse of concentration from Ambrose allowed Matri to give Juve a thirdminute lead. The hosts then rallied after the goal and Buffon had to be alert to stop a fiercely-drilled Wanyama strike from 25 yards.

PSG win, but Valencia keep hope alive PSG beat Valencia 2–1, but Valencia will hope for an away win. VALENCIA: Paris Saint-Germain will take a 2-1 lead into the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against Valencia, but a dramatic late turn of events handed the Spanish side a lifeline. Going into the 90th minute here at the Mestalla on Tuesday, the French league leaders appeared in cruise control thanks to first-half goals from Ezequiel Lavezzi and Javier Pastore. However, French international centre-back Adil Rami found the net in the final minute to keep Valencia in the tie, before PSG had Zlatan Ibrahimovic controversially sent-off for a studs-up challenge on Andres Guardado. The Swede, who has been criticised in the past for failing to produce his very best in the Champions League knockout stages, will now miss the return leg at the Parc des Princes next month, but at least PSG will have a lead to defend.

‘Special One’ looks to the power of 3 Jose Mourinho believes he will add to his triumphs with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010, although he is not promising to do it this year. MADRID: A typically selfassured Jose Mourinho is confident that he will lead a third club to glory in the Champions League, but the Real Madrid coach is wary of the threat presented by Manchester United. The Spanish champions know that progress in Europe will define their season, as they prepare to come up against United in the first leg of their last-16 tie at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday. Mourinho believes he will add to his triumphs with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010, although he is not promising to do it this year. “Real Madrid want to win a tenth European

Cup and I want to win my third," said the Portuguese coach. “I don’t know if it will happen this year but I will keep fighting until I do it. I have confidence in my work. “It wouldn’t be a failure if we didn’t win it this year. There are great clubs and great players out there that have never won it." While Madrid are struggling domestically and currently sit 16 points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona, United are flying high in the Premier League, where

they are 12 points clear of Manchester City at the top. It promises to be a tough tie for the hosts, but one that brings back happy memories for Mourinho, who led Porto to victory against United en route to lifting the trophy in 2004. “Its always a privilege to play United," he said. “I remember every detail of my first game against them nine years ago, and I hope the expectation has a relation with the quality of the match," he said.

Real Madrid want to win a 10th European Cup and I want to win my third. I don’t know if it will happen this year but I will keep fighting until I do it. Jose Mourinho Real Madrid coach