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INJUSTICE OF MALNUTRITION Rich countries have secured commitments of up to $4.15bn to tackle malnutrition at the UK Hunger Summit held at London this week. We take a look at the hounding problem of hunger and malnutrition that kills more people every year than malaria, tuberculosis and Aids combined.

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HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

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THEY’RE OFF REPORT ON P4&5

The government today proved its might at a cost, as the City ceased to function. The pro-T chalo assembly, however, fizzled out in the face of unprecedented security.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

city events

REEL DRAMA

Sutradhar presents Biryani Aur Haleem and adaptation of French play The Pie And The Tart.

Where: Salarjung, Afzalgunj When: June 16, 7.30 pm

Weather for Hyderabad

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES WORKSHOPS

Terrace, Taj Falaknuma When: June 14, 6.30 to 8 pm Ceramic exhibition Surfacing, a ceramic exhibition by Akila Chungi will be held.

Where: Opposite Golkonda Resorts and Spa, Gandipet.

When: Saturday June 15, 5 pm to 9 pm, Sunday June 16, 4 pm to 9 pm Contact: 9989425825

Spa workshop Facilities like hydrafacial and gelration will be offer.

Where: The Spa at Park Hyatt Hyderabad When: June 15, 3.30 pm to 5 pm Contact: 77022 02555 Karate classes Karate classes for kids will be held.

Where: Colorama Printers, Secunderabad When: Till June 14, 4 pm to 6 pm Contact: 80086-24949

LOADED: A motorcyclist transporting a plastic tank on his bike spotted at Assembly Road on Thursday.

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When: June 15, 16, 11 am to 5 pm Contact: 82971-17515 Freezing a moment Photography workshop by renowned photographer Siddharth Where: Kalpataru, Banjara Hills When: June 15, 16, 11 am Contact: 90005-81919

Where: Seasonal Tastes, Westin When: Till June 16, 12 pm to 3 pm For Reservation call: 040 67676888 Beer & biriyani Barish Beer Biryani festival is on.

Where: Aditya Sarovar Premiere, Gachibowli When: June: Till June 16, 7.30 pm to 11.30 pm

Southern spice Southern meals ready will be held.

Where: The Square, Novotel Hotel Convention Center, Kondapur When: June 17, 7 pm Contact: 6682-4422

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POLICE CONTROL ROOM Hyderabad 27852435 Traffic Control Room 27852482 DCP Traffic 23234065, 23243499F Pollution Control Board 23887500 ELECTRICITY General Complaints Breakdown Section

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Art show Special showcasing of live art by acclaimed French artist Remi Bertoche.

Where: Durbar Hall and Jade

Lebanese Spread It’s a week of authentic Lebanese delicacies at Seasonal Tastes.

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SHOWS

Rock walk A rock walk from Peddagutta to Jadcherla will be held.

Where: NMDC, Masab Tank When: June 16, 8 am

French Film screening Tony Gatlif’s Liberté (Freedom) will be screened.

Where: LV Prasad Preview Theatre, Road No 2, Banjara Hills When: 14th June, 6.30pm Contact: 98493-16526

DINING

Mime workshop Auditions for Natvarya and a mime workshop by Indian Mime Academy.

Where: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills

Father’s special Harley-Davidson presents Father's Day special brunch.

Where: The Westin Hyderabad Mindspace, Hitech City When: June 16, 12 pm to 4 pm

Show time Nirnaya Women’s Fund, a non-profit organisation, is hosting a music concert by Bangalore based folk-rock band Swarathma, as a fundraising gesture.

Where: Marriott Hotel and Convention Centre When: June 15, 7.30 onwards

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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

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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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

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YESTERDAY’S QUESTION

ARE POLITICIANS USING OU STUDENTS AS PAWNS? 87% 13%

YES (A) NO (B)

ADJOURNED TO MONDAY The five-day session brings a score of 0/5.

Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy witnessed the proceedings in silence.

Naidu did not take an initiative to bring some co-operation among members.

HYDERABAD: The Assembly was today adjourned till Monday. The Speaker was constrained to take this action following the Opposition’s continued jamming of the Assembly since it began on June 10.

As the five days of sitting came to a close, the score proved zero to five.

As the Assembly was the focal point of the Telangana

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TODAY’S QUESTION

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marchers, the police had taken special precautions to prevent any visitor getting in. Only legislators, officials and media personnel were allowed to proceed towards Assembly Friday morning. Inside, the Assembly witnessed the same turmoil it has been facing for the past five days. Immediately after the gong for fall-in sounded,

Opposition parties — TDP, TRS, BJP, CPI — pressed for their agendas. The most urgent agenda all Opposition parties supported was a resolution backing a separate T-state. As the Speaker rejected them all, the opposition members rushed to the podium and made a ring raising slogans against the government.

Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy witnessed the proceedings in silence.

Sources said attempts were made by some Congress leaders yesterday to persuade opposition leader Chandrababu Naidu to take initiative in bringing a minimum co-operation among the opposition parties so that the Assembly could function.

However, Naidu did not heed the request.

PALEONTOLOGY Ancient fossil fish flaunted abs SYDNEY: Palaeontologists have made the surprising evolutionary discovery that ancient Australian fish may have had abdominal muscles, previously thought to have only developed in land animals.

Researchers mapping the oldest fossilised vertebrate muscles ever seen — in Gogo fish thought to be 380 million years old — worked out the position of the muscles and the orientation of the muscle fibres.

The fossil fish, found in the Kimberley region of Western

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Australia, are enclosed in limestone nodules and are known for their exceptional preservation.

“What’s interesting is when we found these muscles and did some comparisons, the only comparable muscles are in... land animals,” said Gavin Young from Australian National University’s Research School of Earth Sciences.

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CRIME

Life in jail for Australia’s ‘bush’ fugitive killer SYDNEY: A man who eluded police for seven years by living in the harsh Australian bush was Friday sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murders which prompted his life on the run.

Malcolm Naden, the nation’s most wanted fugitive until his capture in a remote cabin in northern New South Wales in early 2012, had pleaded guilty to strangling two young mothers in separate incidents.

“Mr Naden, you have been sentenced to life imprisonment,” NSW Supreme Court Justice

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Derek Price told the 39-year-old.

“You will not be released on parole at any time during your life sentence.”

Price said the murder of Scholes, who lived next door to Naden’s grandparents, with whom he lived, was a “coldblooded merciless killing that was sexually motivated” and required a life sentence.

AFP

News FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 LAST YEAR... HERE Sorcerer owns 20 houses

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ast year we had reported how despite the cops’ renewed efforts to book sorcerers, Nagin Babi aka T Krishna Devi continued with her activity. She is alleged to have owned 20 houses in the City apart from having sizeable investment in real estate.

When the police issued warnings against black magic, she openly conducted a ritual in defiance of the order.

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people were injured and at least one killed in an explosion at a petrochemical plant in Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal's home state of Louisiana in southern US.

Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms.

Videos of Charles Ramsey telling reporters how he helped Amanda Berry flee a decade in captivity went viral on YouTube.

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

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What is welfare of City on politicians’ agenda?

The Assembly was adjourned for the fifth day as opposition parties continued to demand a separate T-state. Naidu refused to call for order among opposition members.

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First lady pushes fashion brand in China?

Speculations were rife after China’s new first lady chose homegrown fashion label Exception de Mixmind for her husband's first overseas trip.

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Youngsters ready to donate blood.

A large number of youngsters in the city are consciously and voluntarily donating blood now and blood banks have seen a good turnout in recent times.

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India continues to prove unsafe for women.

A girl was burned in public view by her lover’s family in a village in Uttar Pradesh.

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Igniting young minds of the country.

Vandemataram, a foundation, is working towards betterment of education in AP villages.

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CITY UNDER POLICE SIEGE Government today proved its might at a cost. The City’s functioning was debilitated. The pro-T Chalo Assembly fizzled out in the face of unprecedented security

POSTNOON TEAM feedback@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: It was not Tpartiers but the huge phalanx of police and Central forces that blocked the City today.

They barricaded five kilometre radius of Assembly, put up blockades and barbed wires in many entry points, and arrested a few T-leaders and cadres who had managed to break through the security ring.

Police and students played a cat-and-mouse game in OU where students were seen openly provoking police with missiles of rocks and sticks. One student All educational institutions in City given holiday today

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was hurt with a rubber bullet.

The police preparations were obvious since yesterday to frustrate the Chalo Assembly march called by the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) to demand a separate Telangana state. All entry points to the City from districts were blocked and vehicles checked.

Normal life in parts of Hyderabad came to a standstill with police shutting down five flyovers and several roads within two-km radius of the Assembly. About 19,000 policemen and Central forces had been deployed to ensure no march took place. Traffic jam was

APSRTC withdraws buses in City and to Telangana districts

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ecretariat today witnessed very thin attendance. Pleading lack of transport, many employees stayed away, officials said. This is despite government warning against shirkers of work. The nerve centre of governance virtually came to a standstill. Those who managed to get in were seen loitering around, discussing politics.

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reported in Lakdikapul, Nampally, AC Guards, Masab Tank, Abids, Tarnaka.

The police entered the office of CPI and arrested 30 leaders and activists. A party leader was also injured in baton charge by the police. Police also took into custody Swamy Goud, union leader, and two others from Jubilee bus station. Kavitha, daughter of KCR, was taken into custody from Indira Park, where protests are being staged.

Hyderabad police commissioner Anurag Sharma said 60 people were arrested since early Friday.

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eanwhile, the Warangal railway police stumbled on a crude explosive fitted on tracklock between ISJ Puram and Kumarigudam and explosive experts diffused it this morning. Police authorities said had it not been found, it would have led to a disaster. It is not immediately clear if planters of bombs belong to T-protesters or Maoists.

with inputs from Mohd Subhan, Inkeshaf Ahmed.

Picture credit: Srinivas Setty, N Shiva Kumar,M Anilkumar and Balakrishna

Many private companies Assembly allow work from home to witnesses jam women employees for the 5th day

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Bid to blow railtrack in Warangal foiled

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Thin attendance in Secretariat despite government warning

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EDUCATION

Moulding citizens of tomorrow The Vandemataram foundation has been on a drive to fight poverty, illiteracy and discrimination through their social outreach initiatives in hundreds of schools in Warangal and Mahbubnagar.

PADMINI C padmini.c@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: “Vandemataram is not an NGO, it’s a movement, a revolution,” says T Ravinder, introducing the foundation which is slowly but steadily transforming public education in villages and mandals across AP. The foundation commenced operations in 2005, on the eve of the centenary celebrations of the national song, Vande Mataram.

Inspired by the teachings and philosophies of Vivekananda and APJ Abdul Kalam, the twelveman team and 11,000 groundlevel volunteers, have been working towards igniting young minds so they can lay the foundation for a better tomorrow.

“If we are able to successfully mould a classroom in a school today, we can mould the shape of the world,” believes journalist-turned-activist Ravinder, who’s the founder-trustee of the community

development organisation.

Keeping true to their motto, the foundation has been on a drive to fight poverty, illiteracy and discrimination through their unique social outreach initiatives in hundreds of schools in Warangal and Mahbubnagar. The results are already showing — drop rates have fallen sharply, teacher absenteeism has slumped and student performance has improved drastically, in more than 120 schools in 10 mandals.

Recognising the problem of high-dropout rates among girls after high school, the foundation has adopted 600 girl children from these mandals, bearing all costs (including their bus pass, admission, tuition fees, study material) for their higher education. In return, these girls have an undertaking to return to their villages in the evening and conduct mentoring classes.

Another successful initiative of the organisation is their ‘Little

WELLNESS

The new way to relax and rejuvenate NIDHI BHUSHAN nidhi.b@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: In a job market where clocking in 16 hours a day has become a norm, it is mandatory to take out some time for relaxation. Not only does stress take a toll on our health but it also affects our skin immensely.

In an attempt to help one rejuvenate and give life to one’s skin, Park Hyatt, Hyderabad, is introducing two new therapies to their spa. The hotel is conducting a workshop to introduce these in the Hyderabad market tomorrow.

The signature treatments are Hydra facial demonstrated by Saumya Sachdev, manager, strategic initiatives, Leader Healthcare India, Hydrafacial and Gel-ration, a type of manicure FOR REPRESENTATION ONLY

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which lasts for a longer time by the use of Jessica Nail Cultivation System Products. Dr Mamtha Ismail, manager at Park Hyatt’s Spa, will be explaining its benefits. Park Hyatt is the only hotel in the country to offer the treatments.

The Hydra Facial is designed in a way that it restores and maintains skin health with immediate visible results. It starts with deep cleansing and gentle exfoliation of the skin followed by painless extractions, and ends with a burst of hydration. “We are glad to have collaborated with Park Hyatt Hyderabad’s signature Spa for the second time. The Hydra Facial’s demand has been increasing and people are experiencing a new feel of their skin,” says Sachdev.

Gel-ration is branded as being “the most sophisticated soak-off manicure and pedicure service available today”.

“The gel-ration manicure is a great solution for people who can’t find time more than once a month to go for a manicure. It is a long-lasting formula that lasts for about 30days and is ideal for a working woman.” says Dr Ismail.

The workshop will be conducted on June 15 at The Spa, Park Hyatt, between 3.30pm and 5pm. Attendees can take appointment by calling +91 49491481.

Leaders’ programme aimed to help orphans and children of single-parents who constitute a majority of the student body in government schools. In the absence of established libraries, these kids serve as mobile libraries by carrying to school story books, moral studies tomes or any good literature provided by the foundation and make them available to the rest of their class. In the evening, they pack them up and bring them back. In turn, these children are rewarded by having a nominal amount of money added to their account for their future education. “Every person we help will help two in return. It will be a chain reaction so that everyone is affected,” the members say.

Despite a monthly expenditure of `4-5 lakh, the foundation says that they will not accept a rupee of government funding.

The organisation was so far being funded by socially con-

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scious businessmen from the City who shared its vision.

“About 50-60 of us came together and wanted to help. So we started setting aside `1-2 lakh every year and giving it to support the foundation,” says Madhav Reddy, now the State secretary for Vandemataram. Recently, they have companies coming forward to sponsor programmes.

But they’re still only getting warmed up. Ahead they have clear development plan and specified goals. “We want to make Dr Kalam’s 2020 vision come true.

Our aim is to create at least 1,00,000 responsible citizens in the country who will work towards change. And we intend to touch 1,000 government schools across the State. If we can achieve that, we can achieve full social justice,” explains Ravinder.

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GHMC

Engg wing abhors sanitation merger

They believe sanitation is too rotten to be mended.

However proposal has been sent to govt for merging it with engg. Currently, sanitation is with health wing.

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involved, the health wing will take care of important health issues and issuing of birth and death certificates.

“As transport operations of the corporation, which involves almost half of the sanitation work, is handled by engineers, I proposed that entire responsibility of solid waste management should be transferred to engineering wing,”Singireddy said.

It is believed that besides increasing the woes of engineers, who are currently sandwiched between officials and contractors, this would also

Md NIZAMUDDIN nizamuddin.@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: “Who would be interested in such an impure thing,”a senior engineer spat while reacting to the merger of sanitation with the engineering wing of the GHMC. The proposal sent to the government suggests sanitation wing to be merged with engineering for more orderly functioning.

It was reported that the commissioner, MT Krishna Babu has also recommended the merger. But the senior engineers in the GHMC did not

want to discuss the issue, giving out signal that the idea is revolting to them. “If we were given this sanitation wing at the beginning, it could have been streamlined and well maintained. But at current level, it would be impossible,” said engineer-in-chief, R Dhan Singh.

There was a proposal by Singireddy Srinivas Reddy, TDP-floor leader, in 2011 about merging the two wings with the hope that it would ease burden on the health wing. While engineers were good at handling it, owing to the technicalities

It is believed that besides increasing the woes of engineers, who are currently sandwiched between officials and contractors, this would also prove detrimental to the workforce on ground. prove detrimental to the workforce on ground.

The Union leaders also feel this to be impractical idea as the engineers will not be able to handle the issue as they are more proficient in handling technical issues. “How can they handle the sanitation, as it would be entirely different ball game for them,” says GHMC Employees & Workers Union.

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Migrants to outnumber Goans by ‘21 PANAJI: Goa is virtually standing on the brink of “ethnic dilution” as unrestricted migration from other states is threatening to reduce the native population to an “alienated microscopic minority” by 2021, according to an assessment by the state government.

“Unrestricted migration and whole-scale transfer of land is beginning to submerge the unique Goan identity. Though we have been noticing this trend in the last decade or so, it has now assumed menacing proportions. The apprehension is that by 2021 the migrant population will outnumber local Goans”.

This apprehension was expressed by an all-party delegation, led by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, which met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi last evening.

Underlining the gradual influx of migrants who are settling down in the coastal state, a hot tourist destination, the memorandum submitted to the prime minister rued that cosmopolitan character of the state has been grossly misunderstood.

The copy of the memorandum was made available to media.

The Parrikar-led delegation met Singh and placed before him

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nly 51 per cent people now speak the official Konkani language whereas the collective proportion of Konkani and Marathi-speaking people is two-third of the total population, which means one third of the population is of migrant settlers, the state policy-makers said quoting the latest Census data. There are 5,76,582 census houses.

Out of this, 1,25,503 are vacant; all probably belonging to migrants who treat this as a second home.

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the demand for special status empowering the local government to enact laws restricting sale of land to non-goans.

“The apprehension is that Goans will become an alienated microscopic minority within their own State,” reads the petition that has taken the stock of the migration trend right from the liberation of Goa from Portuguese rulers in 1961.

PTI

CITY BRIEFS Alert priest foils ‘devout’ bid at temple burglary

Woman commits suicide at in-laws’ house

Wife turned out of home over dowry issue

RTC changes service SMS number

OU exams rescheduled for next week

HYDERABAD: An alert priest of a temple in Marredpally frustrated a man who came in the guise of a devotee and tried to steal a gold chain on the idol. The priest Narasimhachary was busy in rituals but he spotted a man trying to spirit away the gold and he raised alarm with the result that he could not escape the crowd and was caught.

HYDERABAD: A Ramamma is alleged to have committed suicide in her husband’s home in Subhash Nagar yesterday. The 43-year-old woman had married A Sreenu some 14 years ago but the couple have no issue. It is said she was being taunted by in-laws. In-laws say she must have felt frustrated and committed suicide by hanging.

HYDERABAD: Newlywed Farheen Naaz was allegedly thrown out from home by her husband and in-laws, according to her police complaint. She said her husband, Muqatadeer Ali, and his parents had been pestering her for more dowry.

She said her parents had given `3 lakh cash, 15 tolas of gold and 30 tolas of silver.

HYDERABAD: The APSRTC, which started Call Centre with Toll Free number 1800 200 4599 and SMS number 8019999999 has changed its SMS number to 8499 900 900, which started functioning from today. Commuters can now utilize the SMS service provided at the Call Centre, in addition to the existing Toll Free number facility.

HYDERABAD: In view of the Tbandh, Osmania University MBA, MBA (Tech Mgmt), BTech (Chem Engg/Bio-Tech) and BE examinations which was scheduled on June 13and 14 are now rescheduled to next week. This is a second time this year the postponement of these exams have taken place. The exams will be spread over the whole week.

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IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

A couple of demonstrators embrace as they are hounded by riot police during a protest of students against the recent rise in the fare of public transport in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.

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Host suspended for asking if Australia PM’s partner is gay SYDNEY: An Australian radio presenter has been suspended after pressing embattled Prime Minister Julia Gillard on air whether her hairdresser boyfriend Tim Mathieson is gay.

Personal attacks are mounting against her, including a recent menu item at an opposition party fundraiser that she called “grossly sexist and offensive”.

Howard Sattler, known as a shock jock for his blunt style, posed the “gay” question late Thursday after challenging Gillard to answer a series of rumours, myths and innuendos.

He suggested Mathieson, who has been Gillard’s partner for seven years and is known in

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Beau’s family burns girl alive in public LUCKNOW: A woman was brutally assaulted and her daughter burnt alive in public view, and in the presence of the village panchayat, Uttar Pradesh Police said Friday.

The incident occurred at Karahkol village of Deoria, 475 km from state capital Lucknow.

Police have so far arrested two people in this connection and raids are being conducted at several places to apprehend other culprits.

Police said a girl named Manju was in love with a boy named Ranjit of the same village. The boy’s family opposed the relationship, and the matter was taken to the panchayat. At the panchayat meeting, Manju’s mother pleaded that since the two loved each other, they should be allowed to marry.

Incensed by the proposal, Jai

By that time, Manju, who was taken to a nearby medical facility, had died of burn injuries.

A first information report (FIR) was filed based on the sequence of events narrated by Gyanwati, the girl’s mother.

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Hind, Ranjit’s father, and members of his family assaulted Manju’s mother Gyanwati and rained blows and kicks on her.

Manju rushed to help her mother as she was being attacked, and members of Ranjit’s family doused her with kerosene and set her on fire.

Police reached the spot on being informed of the incident.

Manju rushed to help her mother as she was being attacked, and members of Ranjit’s family doused her with kerosene and set her on fire. She died in the hospital.

Seven people have been charged with the crime, and two of them have been arrested. Policemen said the absconding five would soon be nabbed.

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Australia army chief tells sexist soldiers to ‘get out’ SYDNEY: Australia’s army chief Friday told troops to quit if they could not respect women. Lieutenant-General David Morrison said no stone would be left unturned to weed out those who “exploit and demean” female recruits.

“Those who think that it is okay to behave in a way that demeans or exploits their colleagues have no place in this army. If that does not suit you, then get out, he said.

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Australia as the “First Bloke”, must be homosexual because of his line of work, although he no longer cuts hair for a living.

“Tim’s gay. That’s not me saying it, that’s a myth,” he asked her.

“Well, that’s absurd,” Gillard, who met Mathieson in a Melbourne hairdressing salon before becoming prime minister, responded.

“Yeah, but you hear it, he must be gay, he’s a hairdresser,” Sattler said.

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Villagers kill two for ‘witchcraft’, 19 arrested RAIPUR: A group of villagers in eastern India killed an elderly woman and her daughter-in-law after accusing the pair of practising witchcraft, police have said.

Jharkhand police said a group of mainly female assailants beat the pair to death, after earlier deciding that they were responsible, through their alleged witchcraft, for the recent deaths of several children from illness.

“A 70-year-old woman and her 42-year-old daughter-in-law were killed by a large number of village women, who accused the duo of practising witchcraft,” district police chief Rakesh Bansal said.

“We have arrested 19 women from Karonda Jor village for their involvement in the killing,” Bansal told AFP. The women were killed on Tuesday evening in the village, about 85 kilometres north of the state capital Ranchi. Locals held

a meeting and decided to fine the pair `1,500 each for taking part in witchcraft, Bansal said.

The collected money was then used to buy alcohol, which the villagers consumed before setting upon the pair, he added.

The attack follows another incident in the same district in June last year, when two teenagers and their father were killed by villagers after they were

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accused of practising witchcraft and “leaving ghosts behind them,” a police official said.

Human sacrifices also sometimes occur in poorer and remote areas of deeply religious and superstitious India, where people fear and revere practitioners of so-called black magic. The victims are killed by witch doctors to please or appease deities. AFP

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Vietnam detains second blogger in weeks

Iran begins voting to elect new president

MANILA: At least two people died and more than 20 others were missing after a ferry sank in the central Philippines on Friday, authorities said. Thirty-four people were quickly rescued but two bodies including that of a 58-year-old woman was found and more than 20 others were missing, regional civil defence chief Raffy Alejandro told AFP

TOKYO: Three Chinese government ships sailed into waters around disputed islands controlled

by Tokyo on Friday, for the first time since late May, Japan’s coastguard said. The Chinese maritime surveillance vessels were spotted inside the 12-nautical-mile zone off the Senkaku islands, which China calls the Diaoyus.

NEW YORK: News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch filed papers to divorce his third wife Wendi Deng, citing an “irretrievably” broken marriage to a woman 38 years his junior. The media tycoon’s Chineseborn partner is perhaps best known for a 2011 incident when she leapt to defend her husband by striking a pie-wielding protester.

HANOI: A prominent Vietnamese blogger has been arrested for antistate activity, reports said Friday, the second online government critic detained in less than a month.

Pham Viet Dao, 61, was taken into custody on Thursday in Hanoi accused of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the State”.

TEHRAN: Iran began voting on Friday to elect the successor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the state television announced. The vote pitches a divided conservative camp against a moderate candidate who enjoys the backing of the reformists. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged people to vote en masse.

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TURKEY UNREST

Erdogan, protesters hold talks Even as the talks got underway, police fired tear gas at around 200 protesters in the city centre.

An anti-government protester waves a Turkish flag with a poster of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, at Taksim Gezi park. AFP

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ANKARA: Turkish protest leaders held emergency talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan overnight after demonstrators rejected his "last warning" to evacuate an Istanbul park at the centre of mass anti-government demos.

With tensions mounting, Taksim Solidarity representatives travelled to the capital Ankara for late-night talks with Erdogan, their first since the unrest began. Local television showed around a dozen members entering the premier's residence.

Earlier, Erdogan had taken a combative stance against the protesters at Gezi Park who have put up the biggest challenge yet to the decade-long rule of his Justice and Development Party (AKP). "I'm making my last warning: mothers, fathers please withdraw your kids from there," he said in a live television broadcast. "Gezi Park does not belong to occupying forces. It belongs to everybody."

Even as the talks got underway, police fired tear gas at around 200 protesters gathered in Ankara city centre, not far from Erdogan's offices, witnesses told AFP. They used water cannon to break up the gathering and arrested five demonstrators.

An AKP spokesman said the government would do nothing to the park until a referendum they had promised on its future takes place.

After the talks, which lasted several hours, AKP spokesman Huseyin Celik insisted the government would do nothing to the park until a referendum they had promised on its future had taken place. The authorities were also waiting for the courts to rule on a move by objectors to block their development plan, Celik added.

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China’s First Lady of fashion Would Peng's championing of a domestic fashion label in the midst of a government "frugality" drive send a message to top officials' wives to ditch the bling?

WASHINGTON: The United States has launched a criminal investigation and is taking "all necessary steps" to prosecute Edward Snowden for exposing secret US surveillance programs, the FBI director said Thursday.

Robert Mueller, who is to step down soon after more than a decade leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation, defended the Internet and phone sweeps as vital tools that could have prevented the attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Snowden's disclosures "have caused significant harm to our nation and to our safety," Mueller told lawmakers at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

As to Snowden, "he is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation," Mueller said.

"We are taking all necessary steps to hold the person responsible for these disclosures."

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HELEN ROWE Agence France-Presse HYDERABAD: When China's new first lady Peng Liyuan, a glamorous former folk singer famous in her own right, chose homegrown fashion label Exception de Mixmind for her husband's first overseas trip, speculation on Chinese social media went into overdrive.

Was this Exception's "Jason Wu moment"? people asked, referring to the young Taiwanese-Canadian designer who shot to fame after Michelle Obama dazzled at the first inaugural ball in an ivory one-shoulder Wu creation.

Or would Peng's championing of a domestic fashion label in the midst of a government "frugality" drive send a message to top officials' wives to ditch the bling?

For many labels such publicity is the stuff of marketing

Mao Jihong Exception founder

First Lady Angelica Rivera (R) and Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan (L) as they arrive at Televisa studios in Mexico City.

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dreams.

But in his first interview since Peng accompanied her husband President Xi Jinping to Russia in March, Exception founder Mao Jihong looks uncomfortable when the "first lady issue" is raised.

Peng, a star in China for over three decades, has been wearing Exception for 12 years and some clothes were specially designed for her, Mao told AFP in an interview in Paris.

And while the publicity surrounding her choice of an

Exception double-breasted trench coat and leather handbag on her Russia trip was undoubtedly good for the brand, it has also been "lots of trouble", he said.

"We just want to do fashion quietly. We never do campaigns or advertising but after the first lady wore our clothes (in Russia) lots of people came looking for us," he said.

"We want to present the brand rather than use the first lady to make us famous. We never really wanted that," he added.

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HEALTH

The spirit of young blood Youngsters are stepping forward to donate blood and arrange blood camps in the City.

KANCHAN AGARWAL kanchan.a@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: A large number of youngsters in the City are consciously and voluntarily donating

blood now. Thanks to technology, the word at the time of requirement spreads quickly as well.

Shareef Ahmed, the man behind blood donation portal friends2support, says: “They

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NIA on trail of a Mangalorean?

(youngsters) now understand the importance of voluntary blood donation. Besides, there is an evident spirit to do some good for the society,” he says. Out of his database of 1,00,000 donors, a whopping 60 per cent are in the age group of 18-35 years.

“In the last two years, every youngster I have come across has responded to a blood requirement. They show interest in participating and organising blood camps,” he elaborates.

Other blood banks such as Chiranjeevi, Social Service and Red Cross, too have good figures. Chiranjeevi gets about 200 donors in each of their blood camps held at colleges every three months. Social Service blood bank had 2,800 donors from nine camps last year, of which 60 per cent were youngsters. Red Cross collected 412

units at a camp at CVR College of Engineering.

While all this is good, there are always a few challenges to be met.

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misconceptions. “I am often asked if donating blood will make them weak. People wonder if the needles are fresh, and they worry if their blood will be sold. One has to be patient and explain what is what to them. Once they understand, they can become lifelong

donors,” says Dr Kodak Jagadish, medical officer at Red Cross.

Nivedita N, 26, has donated blood at every opportunity since her college days. “The motivating factor is that it can save a life but I have noticed that each donation makes you even healthier.”

Chandrasekhar Reddy, president of Social Service blood bank lists the eligibility criteria. “You should be above 18 years of age, and must weigh more than 45 kg.

There should have been no intake of alcohol at least 24 hours before.

If you have had surgery, typhoid and delivery, you have to wait a year. If you had a vaccination or a tattoo done, you can’t donate for six months. If you have had an abortion, it will be eight months before you can donate. People with skin problems, asthma, liver and heart issues can avoid blood donation.”

A MOVEABLE FEAST

Following information from two prisoners, the cops have headed to Karnataka.

POSTNOON NEWS feedback@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is still probing the Dilsukhnagar blasts from all angles, has sent a posse of detectives to Mangalore on the trail of one Ibrahim, who is said to be working with the Indian Mujahiddin (IM) and is a terror hand holed up in coastal Karnataka. It is not clear if he is a Pakistani or Indian.

NIA got wind of his involvement in the blasts after interrogating two men in captivity,

Imran and Maqbool. They told the investigators that Ibrahim is an Indian from Mangalore.

Police would want to know if he had applied on a false address or the right address. This man, if

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he had managed an Indian passport through corrupt police and bureaucracy, is unlikely to be in India. However, police will meet the Mangalore police commissioner and bring back reports, sources said.

People, all dressed in white, arrive for a dinner on the Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

The venue of the 25th edition of the annual “dinner in white” is kept secret from the Paris authorities, and the invited participants are only told where they are to gather earlier in the evening.

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NATION BRIEFS Huge spurt in rape cases in Jharkhand

13-yr-old Dalit girl abducted, raped

Man booked for rape in Loni district

Two boys drown in Hindon River

Cong worker killed in clash with CPI-M men

RANCHI: Jharkhand has witnessed a steep rise in the number of rape cases registered in the first five months of this year, as compared to the same period in the two years preceding, according to data from the state police department.

A total of 500 rape cases were registered in the state till May 31 from January 1 this year.

BIKANER: A 13-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by two men in Churu district when she had gone outside her house to relieve herself, police said here. The duo abducted the girl, took her to an isolated place and raped her. An FIR was registered with Sadulpur police station, they said, adding that the matter was being probed.

GHAZIABAD: A man has been accused of repeatedly raping a girl for over a month in Loni district and threatening to harm her and her family if she approached police. The man has been booked for rape, while a case was lodged against him and his five relatives for threatening the girl, station in-charge Brajmohan Yadav said today.

GHAZIABAD: Two 12-year-old boys drowned while bathing in Hindon river in Karhauda village of Saibabad district near Ghaziabad, police said here. Mukesh and Shahrukh drowned while bathing in the river, SP (city) Shiv Shankar Yadav said. There is no foul play suspected.

The bodies have been sent for postmortem, Yadav said.

JALPAIGURI: A Congress worker was killed and another four injured when Congress and CPI(M) activists clashed, police said. Congress worker Surya Mohan Debanth was killed with sharp weapons while four others were injured in the clash in Palashtoli area, police said. The injured were rushed to hospital where condition of two of them was stated to be serious.

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REPORTERS’ DIARY

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any took him earlier to be a shy introvert, not eager to hog the headlines.

The media repulsed him. He was indeed all these as MLA and Speaker. But his detractors seem to forget that as a Virgo, he has a shrewd mind and a revengeful mentality that gives him ideas for the knockout punch.

During the recent Cabinet meeting, the CM’s Cabinet colleagues Botsa Satyanarayana and K Jana Reddy, who are known to be his worst critics, tried to corner him on the issue of his pet programme, Bangaru Talli scheme, which is aimed at providing handsome benefits to the girl child of poor families.

Both the leaders opined that the scheme required debate and deliberation before its implementation. They also made jibes at the CM’s bid to make a legislation for the scheme without forming a Cabinet sub-committee to go deeper into the implications of the scheme.

The CM bowed to the wisdom of the two senior colleagues and the duo came out nodding in happiness of having bearded the lion in its den. Little did they know what was in store. When the Cabinet sub-committee was formed, both the worthies found themselves not in the committee as they expected but it was filled with the CM loyalists!

Moral of the story: Never underestimate your rival.

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HERE GOES THE UMBRELLA!

Even if you give a dog water in a gold bowl, it will lap it up rather than drink because it is its nature. With apology for using a canine analogy, this reporter wants to point out the ugly sight of an uprooted well-equipped traffic umbrella given to traffic police at the Nizam college grounds (See picture).

This umbrella, an engineering marvel, provides for everything needed for a hard working traffic regulating policeman. It has a fan fitted to the ceiling, lights for day and night, shelter from shine and rain. When we asked a cop why they have allowed such a facility to go, he muttered something about secu-

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rity reasons! Well, can we ever blame the foreigners who termed Indians mutts in their travel blogs?

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METHOD IN MADNESS

Postnoon lensman Srinivas Setty snapped a picture on the stretch between Jubilee check post and Peddamma temple along Road No 36 of Jubilee Hills where municipal contractors were busy changing grass carpets laid on the road divider margin only a while ago.

Don’t mistake it for an earnest job. It is done periodically to ‘earn easy funds’ of which we are sure of the complicity of civic officials in-charge of this nuisance. These readymade grass carpets, an invention of urban builders, are highly mobile and easily installable and replaceable. A fat bill awaits the corporation on account of this, which is finally paid by the taxpayers of this City. It is a pity nobody challenges this mad but methodical work to mulct the public.

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K Dhananjaya Reddy from GHMC, there are rumours that three additional commissioners serving other wings have placed their bids.

The position being vacated after almost a decade has been the target of many officials, but only the most influential can hold it. The Planning wing is considered the most lucrative among civic wings, a goose laying golden eggs. After the transfer was made public, several who put hopes on the post could be seen making rounds of the GHMC office (fifth floor).

Meanwhile, one IAS officer was reportedly offered the post but he refused to take up the task that needs the wits of a bureaucrat and the shrewdness of a

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COP BLOTS HIS COPY BOOK

What happens when greed overtakes you? Ask our cricketers or ask defence generals who baffle us going after moolah much lesser than their salary. So what to talk of a lesser mortal?

It is a sad story of a young sub-inspector who within four years destroyed a promising career falling for `10k of greasy money. The SI, K Ravi Kumar, was caught red-handed accepting the cash from one Syed Abdul Khader for favours done in a petty case. The SI walked into the trap easily. As he realised the men in mufti are ACB police, he tried to escape on his bike but

the officers’ jeep and people nearby blocked him and he was arrested.

Those who say he had been harassing everybody for money had a good laugh at the spectacle of the SI sitting in handcuffs in the back of the ACB jeep. MS

STOP RIGHT THERE!

The traffic police in the City have been on an overdrive recently, hauling over unsuspecting commuters for a variety of reasons.

Those passers-by along the Nagarjuna Circle junction bore the brunt last week with the signals on all roads conked off.

Passengers with their typical enthusiasm jumped at the chance of racing away in all directions with no care for safety. But it was the traffic police in the area who took the cake, for standing at corners issuing challans and collecting fines instead of actually taking charge directing the traffic until almost two days later, when predictably, after their targets had been reached. Is it any wonder then that Hyderabad is considered to be the worst city to drive in the country?

PC Contributed by Srinivas Setty, Inkeshaf Ahmed, Mohd Subhan, Md Nizamuddin, Padmini C & PK Surendran.

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THE SCREENING ROOM WITH HEMANTH KUMAR

YOU’RE THE WRITER The Story So Far: Venu and Gopal show a hand written letter of Rajinikanth to the auto-driver and all of a sudden a gust of wind takes the letter away with it.

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enu is speechless that he has lost the letter, while Gopal and the auto driver are desperate to find it. Much to their dismay, the letter gets stuck on a car’s windshield and before they know it, the car speeds away.

Gopal: We lost it Venu. What do we do now?

Venu: (In tears) I don’t know. That was our only hope and without that letter, I don’t know how he’ll recognize us.

Gopal: I think we should still go ahead and give it a shot. You never know how our luck might turn out.

Auto driver: (Takes pity on the two) I’ll take you to Rajini’s house. Let’s try to meet him.

Venu: (Looks at the autodriver) Are you sure?

Now, there’s no way we can win the bet.

Auto driver: Forget about the bet. Now, wipe your tears and lets go.

Gopal: (Whispers to Venu) It’s going to be alright.

Even if we don’t get to meet him, we can just tell our friends back home that we had the adventure of a lifetime

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Finding the right formula

That marks the end of how Venu and Gopal managed to meet Rajinikanth after going through several tense moments in Chennai. We will be back with yet another story soon. If you have any ideas for a short story, you can mail your entries to hemanth.k@postnoon.com.

Yeleti makes a comeback

The new breed of filmmakers seem to have found the right formula, which explains the overwhelming response for recent hits like Gunde Jaari Gallanthayindhe, Prema Katha Chitram.

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elugu film industry seems to be welcoming new filmmakers with open arms these days. Over the past few months, there has been there has been a huge influx of young filmmakers who are eager to tell their stories within a limited budget and that has in turn caught the attention of quite a few producers and top actors. In recent times, filmmakers like Maruthi, Sudheer Varma, Vijay Kumar Konda have made a big splash at box-office and all of a sudden, the number of films under production has increased dramatically. Armed with Canon 5D cameras, less characters and a story targeted at the youth, some of the filmmakers like Maruthi and Sudheer Varma seem to have found a perfect combination of everything to make a killing at box-office. The only downside of this new trend is that nearly every entertainer these days is a love story with a heavy dose of male chauvinism.

Perhaps, it wouldn’t be too long before this genre loses its sheen and already, one can see it coming. Everytime, someone delivers a hit, it inspires scores of others to follow similar path. It remains to be seen what’s next in store for us.

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he three reach Rajinikanth’s house and they try to bargain their way into the house.

When the security guard is on the verge of shooing them away, Venu tells him the entire incident about how they lost the letter, which was their only proof that he knows Rajinikanth Security Guard: Did you mention a letter? Hold on. (He calls someone inside the mansion and within no time, the gates are opened) You can go in now. He’s waiting for you.

Venu: Is he? (Looks completed astonished. All he can think about is how did Rajinikanth come to know about the letter) Auto driver: Oh my god! I can’t believe what’s happening.

(The three go inside the house and Rajinikanth welcomes them and soon, Venu, Gopal and the auto driver begin to tremble) Rajinikanth: You must be wondering how I found out about the letter. (The rest nod in agreement) Rajinikanth: The letter was stuck on my car’s windshield. Besides, Venu’s parents had called me to inform that you are coming to Chennai.

Venu: My father has been in touch with you all these years?

Rajinikanth: Yes. (Venu and Gopal faint and the autodriver can’t believe what just happened) Written by Lakshmi (The writer is a Hyderabad based engineer and a part-time writer, photographer and a foodie)

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WEEKEND WATCH

Sridevi to host a quiz show?

F ew days ago, rumours began doing rounds that Sridevi is going to make a comeback of sorts in Telugu and this time as an anchor. Buzz is that she has been offered a bomb to host a quiz show on the lines of Kaun Banega Crorepati in Telugu.

Ever since Sridevi made her comeback in English Vinglish, there have been several rumours about what her next move might be. She had earlier hinted that she would be willing to act in Telugu, only if she

gets a good script. A leading production house had approached her for a big budget film; however, the talks haven’t materialized. With the latest rumour that she might be hosting a quiz show,

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en years ago, when Chandrasekhar Yeleti came up with Aithe, everything thought that Telugu cinema was on the verge of a new wave.

Soon, Yeleti became a ray of hope for new age filmmakers with his subsequent films Anaganaga Oka Roju and Okkadunnadu. His last film Prayanam released four years ago and now, he’s coming up with an action adventure film Sahasam. The first look of the film was quite impressive and buzz is that the film has been made with a budget of `30 crore. The film starring Gopichand and Taapsee is expected to hit the screens on June 21 and we can’t wait to see what Chandrasekhar Yeleti has done this time. It does promise to be a exciting roller coaster ride right from the word go.

everyone is eagerly awaiting an official confirmation from the actress herself. Of late, she has been travelling a lot and spending time with her family. Not many know that Sridevi has a penchant for painting and she’s has painted several portraits over the years.

We have seen her act with some of the top actors in India over the past four decades and her small screen debut, if it really happens, will keep the audience hooked on to the screens.

Follow Hemanth on Twitter @crhemanth or email: hemanth.k@postnoon.com

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

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Upstream Colour (2013) Hailed as one of the most interesting films of the year, the film was directed by Shane Carruth and it follows the lives of a couple who try to assemble fragments of their lives.

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) A crime-comedy, directed by Shane Black, the film starring Robert Downey, Jr and Val Kilmer, is a murder mystery which brings together a detective, a struggling actress and a thief.

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Oram Po (2007) Directed by Pushkar and Gayathri, this Tamil film is set in bylanes of Chennai where auto drivers indulge in races.

The film stars Arya and Pooja Umashankar in lead roles.

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Comment Politics is the art of looking for trouble, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn Political publicist

Wind farms on D-Day sites fan controversy CHLOE COUPEAU Agence France-Presse

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French plan to set up wind turbines near the site of the D-Day landings that changed the course of World War II has enraged many who say it desecrates the memory of the liberators.

The proposed wind park off the Normandy coast involves 75 windmills, each 100 metres (300 feet) high, and will span the areas where British and Canadian forces landed in 1944.

The closest windmills will be only about 10 kilometres (six miles) from shore.

The project, being led by state electricity provider EDF, is part of a strategy to use renewable energy to account for almost a quarter of France’s needs by around 2030.

Meetings are being held across Normandy to discuss the thorny issue. They are being conducted in both English and French — the latest held Wednesday at Arromanches-les-Bains, where the British soldiers landed.

“These beaches belong to history. It’s from here that the liberation of the world began. If you allow the comparison, I don’t think the Germans would permit the construction of a wind park next to the ruins of a concentration camp. These are sacred areas,” said Karel Scheerlinck, a Belgian who lives in the town.

Claude Brevan, the head of a commission organising the meetings, said the wind park would span an area from Arromanches-les-Bains to the nearby fishing port of Courselles, where Canadian soldiers fought their way ashore.

American landing sites would not be affected, she said.

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS

The Telangana demand is more than 60 years old and it is time the nation gave it a considerate treatment. No sub-national movement has seen so many ups and downs. The least the Congress government should do is to stop making deprecatory statements in the now-on-now-off strain.

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reathlessly, the 10year-olds at Rosebank Primary School in Johannesburg clamour to explain all about Nelson Mandela’s life.

For them, Mandela is the hero they love but never knew — as he is for the kids who this week have delivered cards, flowers and get-well messages to his Johannesburg home a short distance away as the 94year-old icon of the struggle against apartheid fights a recurrent lung infection in hospital.

Madiba — as he is affectionately known in South Africa — retreated from public office in the decade before these children were born.

But they quickly go deep into details of his life, not forgetting to translate Mandela’s Xhosa name, Rolihlahla — which colloquially means “troublemaker”.

Even if he came from a poor family, they are proud that Mandela caused enough trouble to end white-minority rule and became the father of the “Rainbow Nation”.

He was so “poor that his father cut his own trousers so he can wear it on his first day to

school,” said Junior Luthuli, 10, during break time.

“And the (pair of) trousers was big, and he didn’t have a belt, so his father used a string to tie it,” interjected classmate Sibusiso Ncube, also 10.

South African children start to learn about “Tata”, or father Mandela, as early as pre-school.

By primary school Mandela is firmly on the syllabus along with lessons about Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, both offered as examples of good leadership.

Images of Mandela feature prominently in social science and history textbooks.

South African children are supposed to be taught about the American political system when the subject of democracy is first introduced in primary schools, but teachers find that irrelevant.

“These children need to know about their own history first, about Mandela, about (his apartheid predecessor and negotiating counterpart FW) De Klerk, before we start teaching them of other countries,” said history teacher Mia Flourentzou.

Meanwhile the pupils eagerly await their turn to speak about Mandela.

“I have heard he has problems with his lungs. I feel sad because I don’t want him to go away. He has done a lot for this country and he deserves the best,” said Refiloo Mtheya.

In a few minutes she retells Mandela’s life story from the day he was born to him voting in the 1994 elections that ushered him in as South Africa’s first black president.

“Mandela is important because he stopped apartheid. If he had not done that I probably would not have been in this school,” said Luthuli, who commutes from the predominantly black Soweto township to school in a suburb of Johannesburg.

“I just want to be like him, I don’t want to be corrupt like some people.”

The children may not understand what it is like to be in a jail, but they certainly know it was tough for Mandela to spend 27 years in apartheid prisons.

“South Africans are trying to

push Mandela to go up to 100 years because he spent a lot of his life on Robben Island,” said Masiko Dlamini, daughter of an expatriate Swazi lawyer.

“Mandela has made this a beautiful country. There is no more white rule because of him.

If it wasn’t because of him, I wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t have seen South Africa because I am from Swaziland,” said Dlamini.

Ncube, who recounted the story of Mandela’s trousers, says the former president is his role model.

“He is very brave, he fought for freedom and he wasn’t scared of anything, he fought against HIV/AIDS. And I am scared that if he dies maybe apartheid will come back.”

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ill the fall in the value of the Indian rupee along with decreased scholarships in US varsities see lesser students from Andhra Pradesh pursuing their dream education in the US? The question is pertinent as over half of the students who make it to the US for higher education in the yearly two lakh students are from Andhra Pradesh. This could also partly be the reason for why a Telugu name invariably figures in crime against Indian students in the US. Like ambitious parents from Gujarat and Punjab, Andhra couples are worried about the steep increase in the fees for their wards this year; unexpected on their budget plans like the fluctuating gold rate for a daughter’s wedding.

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The plummeting rupee will also burden these aspirants with additional expenses on lodging, boarding and travel. August is when Indian students throng US universities. A 10 per cent burden imposed by way of the falling rupee has only added to their worry of the 10 per cent increase in tuition fees since last year.

The better the university, the higher is the increase, and stricter the bank terms.

The failing rupee in the last one-and-a-half months has also affected students into their odd or even semesters dependent on varying rates of bank interest.

Those who have just completed the course and entered their first job are the ones positively impacted — the burden reduces as they pay back their bank loans in dollars!

We invite you to write to us comments, suggestions, viewpoint or just about anything to feedback@postnoon.com or #1246, Level 3, Jubilee Casa, Road No 62, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad – 500 033 or even by way of a call on 4067 2222.

Editor: Dean Williams

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Living spaces FACTS ABOUT BANJARA HILLS & JUBILEE HILLS SCHOOLS

City hills still in demand

Status along with serenity that Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills offer has ensured that property value over here is always on the upswing.

Jubliee Hills Public School, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, NASR, Delhi Public School COLLEGES

Muffakham Jah Engg College, G Narayanamma Institute of Technology and Science (Shaikpet), Dr BR Ambedkar Open University, JNTU (Masab Tank)

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any things have changed over the years in the City. Peripheral areas like Kondapur, Madhapur and Gachibowli have evolved as premier localities and are driving the real estate. On the other side, Abids and Koti, which are famous retail hubs, are losing their dominance of retail as shopping is developing across the City. However, Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills, premier localities of the City, continue to grow

as hubs for residential, commercial and retail real estate.

“Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills did not lose their sheen even with the development of peripheral areas. They continue to attract buyers from different walks of life. Not only for politicians, industrialists and film stars, the place is an abode for successful people and HNIs of the City. Many well-known doctors, senior advocates and businessmen are choosing this place.

In a way, the place represents the status of a person who lives here.

Like any successful person

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dreams of owning a BMW or Mercedes, one chooses to live in this locality,” said M Adinarayana Rao, manager– sales, Aparna Constructions.

He added, “It is not just the brand name, the locality has its inherent strengths and adds value to the quality of life of its residents. These are wellplanned plots with a minimum of 40-feet wide roads and are surrounded by greenery. The plot sizes are also large, providing enough space for gardens and lawns. The density of population is low due to the

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Jubilee Hills Check Post (upcoming Metro), Nampally and Secunderabad (out-station trains), Begumpet, Hitec City (MMTS) AIR

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many stand-alone buildings and very few high-rise apartments,” Available land is very less and insufficient for development of gated communities. Talking about the demand and supply ratio, he says, “A decent gated community needs around seven acres of land, which is not easily available in these localities. The mismatch in demand supply ratio is adding to the increased value of this locality. However, the real estate downturn in the City has also affected this place in terms of value. The growth in the past was not up to our expectations. But, the scenario is getting better of late with real estate getting back on track,” Many think the place, which is at a peak in terms of value will not see any further price rise.

However, executive vice-president of APREDA, R Chalapathi Rao, disagrees with this. He says, “It is a myth that a developed locality doesn’t have price

Property Values Banjara Hills Retail rent `100–130 per sft per month Retail property value `10,000–13,000 per sft Commerical office rent `50–60 per sft per month Office property value `4,500–7,500 per sft per month Resdential property value `3,500–14,000 per sft Jubilee Hills Retail rent `110–140 per sft per month Retail property value `11,000–14,000 per sft

appreciation. It is very difficult for a peripheral area to gain the momentum and have price rise.

But, developed areas will always have a minimum guaranteed growth.”

“The property appreciation is also influenced by micro issues like construction quality, amenities, reputation of the

builder along, and the locality,” adds Rao. In terms of location, this area acts as a bridge between the central City and the IT hub. Every brand wants to be present here to attract customers. Major film studios, media houses, publishing companies, real estate developers all choose this area to have their office in. This also adds to the brand value of the company along with better accessibility to customers. “Rentals are as high as `120 per sft, whereas traditional retail hubs like Basheerbagh command only `60-70 per sft,” revealed G Hari Babu, chairman, Lahari Group.

Proximity to the PV Narishmha Rao expressway that leads to the airport is an added advantage for residents of Banjara Hills. The upcoming metro may not reach all corners of these localities but connects the Jubilee Hills Checkpost to Shilparamam via Pedamma Gudi.

any say that there is no demand for commercial space in Hyderabad and the rental values are stagnant. That is not true in any terms. Existing companies are expanding their operations by absorbing more space. The overall experience that they are having by being here in the City is driving them to lease out more space. Undoubtedly, the quality of infrastructure here is better than in many cities. There is rich talent available and the attrition rate is much lower as compared to other cities.

Low cost of living and reasonable rental compared to other IT hubs in the country, are other advantages with Hyderabad.

Clearly, IT companies have benefited with their presence in Hyderabad. However, there are no new companies that are stepping into the City. They are hesitant while choosing Hyderabad over other cities due to the political uncertainty in the State. The question they ask is why we should go to Hyderabad when there are other cities offering similar spaces but without the drama.

Over all, a section of the corporate wants to expand here but there is the other section that is hesitant.

Another view is that office rentals have not gone up. Office rentals have gone up by 20-25 per

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cent in some micro markets in the last 12 months. For instance, there has been a sharp increase in areas like Hitec City and other IT-dominant areas. Actually the supply of office space is less compared to the demand, which is giving a push to the rental value.

The demand for office space will be around 4mn-sft this year, which is very much in line with that in Pune. As far as the residential real estate is concerned, the pricing is low compared to other cities. The other cities have gone much ahead of Hyderabad in terms of property values and rentals. For example, considering peak prices in the third quarter of 2008 as 100 points, the capital values in Mumbai have gone up from 74 points to 174 points.

Hyderabad ranks the lowest in terms of growth in capital values. This benefits buyers and tenants and keeps the cost of living low in the City. However, on the developers’ front, it is a tough situation. If the previous peak was 100 (third quarter of 2008) it only added 18 points to move to 118 points after five years. Due to these values, there is still good response from buyers for bookings for properties that are priced below `50 lakh.

In the office space segment, none of the cities revived the peak price of the third quarter in 2008.

The same also applies to the retail.

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KISMET CONNECTION

With DJ Piyush behind the console churning out the latest Bollywood chartbusters at Kismet, one is sure to set fire on the dance floor.

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NEW SCHOOL ON THE BLOCK Ambitus World School was inaugurated by ďŹ nance minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy on Thursday. The school is located at Miyapur-Medchal Highway, Near Bachupally.

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HEALTH AWARENESS WALK FOR SOUTH ASIANS IN CANADA With research showing South Asians being among the people most susceptible to heart diseases in Canada, a walk is being organised in the city of Edmonton to create awareness about the issue. The event is being organised by the DIL Walk Foundation to create awareness about heart diseases and a healthy lifestyle. IANS

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Listen to your heart?

Do you think you cannot get a heart attack if you’re young? Do you wait for symptoms of blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes before going for a medical check-up? Here are some myths related to the heart debunked.

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MYTH: Young people won’t get heart attack.

FACT IS: Research suggests that 40 per cent of patients who die of heart attack are below 50 years of age. This trend is on the rise due to lifestyle changes over the last few decades, mainly reduced physical activity and disturbed sleep patterns. Additionally, improper diet and tobacco smoking increase the risk of heart attacks. It is important to avoid a sedentary lifestyle and be physically active.

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MYTH: Children do not get heart diseases.

FACT IS: It can affect people at any age.

Congenital heart disease is a birth defect in children. Medline Plus defines it as the leading cause of death during the first year of birth than any other birth defect. Moreover, according to USA Today, overweight and unhealthy lifestyle that affects adults can also put strain on the hearts of children. It also put these children at a risk of developing heart ailments in early adulthood.

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MYTH: You shouldn’t exercise if you have heart disease.

FACT IS: Unless you have a chronic heart ailment, where you need to be under proper supervision while exercising, experts advise at least 10 to 20 minutes of physical exercise for heart patients. According to WebMd, it reduces the recurrence of attacks. And in those who lead a sedentary lifestyle, at least 20 minutes of exercise is recommended to avoid early onset of heart ailments.

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MYTH: I don’t need a BP/cholesterol check up because I don’t have any symptoms.

FACT IS: Doctors recommend regular check-ups for diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol. Blood pressure and hypertension are called “silent killers”. The symptoms will not show and you may never know you have it until you get a test done. Similarly, though cholesterol is associated with obesity, it can affect a thin person as well. Early detection and treatment can prevent serious damage.

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FACT IS: There are things you can do to reduce risk factors and stay healthy.

According to Women’s Health Heart Initiative, majority of heart diseases can be prevented by developing a healthy lifestyle.

Doctors advise that you always keep a check on your weight. At least six hours of undisturbed sleep, eating sumptuous amounts of fruits and avoiding tobacco smoking are some of the things you can do.

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This app is geared towards runners who want an on-the-go yoga application they can use at home or take with them anywhere. Created by a group of runners and yoga instructors, you’ll have perfectly balanced yoga pose sequences for your pre-run stretch and your post-run fix with the Yoga for Runners application. itunes.apple.com

Addison’s disease (also known as primary adrenal insufficiency or hypoadrenalism) is a rare disorder of the adrenal glands. It affects the production of two hormones – cortisol and aldosterone – which help to regulate blood pressure.

In Addison’s disease, usually the cortex of the both adrenal glands has been destroyed. This disrupts the production of two steroid hormones, called cortisol and aldosterone. nhs.uk

Mustard greens are an excellent anticancer vegetable. They may also be beneficial for colds, arthritis or depression.

While mustard greens sold in the United States are relatively mild in flavor, some mustard green varieties, especially those in Asia, can be as hot as a jalapeno pepper depending on their mustard oil content. mercola.com

Henry Gray was an English anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book Gray’s Anatomy.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the age of 25. He held successively the posts of demonstrator of Anatomy, curator of the museum, and Lecturer of Anatomy at St George’s Hospital, and was in 1861 a candidate for the post of assistant surgeon. en.wikipedia.org

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Technology IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE

ANALYSE NOW

Video game hacks straight into US surveillance storm.

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video game with a protagonist who controls the world around him by hacking into systems is generating growing buzz, for its eerie parallels with the current storm about US surveillance.

Games typically use weapons ranging from guns and swords to zappers to special powers to defeat enemies, overcome obstacles or simply score points, and hundreds are on display at the E3 gaming industry conference in Los Angeles.

But in “Watch Dogs,” the player-controlled anti-hero can access everything from the cellphone conversations and medical records of passers-by to computers which control traffic lights, to advance through the game.

“We knew we had a relevant topic,” Canadian Ubisoft developer Dominic Guay told AFP,

recalling how he arrived ahead of the gaming megagathering this week, and checked into his hotel.

“I turned on CNN, and the first sentence I heard was ‘invasion of privacy,’ switched channel and on Fox they were like, ‘surveillance,’ and I said to my creative director, ‘Those are all our key words’.”

Ubisoft, the French company behind top gaming

titles including “Assassin’s Creed” and “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time,” showed off “Watch Dogs” on Monday, at a pre-E3 press conference in a downtown LA hotel.

Set in Chicago, the game centers on Aiden Pearce, who uses his smartphone to access the city’s Central Operating System, which controls everything from power grids and traffic management technology to bank accounts and phone networks.

Guay said technology is now making it possible to foresee a world not unlike that in British writer George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” in which Big Brother watches and controls everything.

In “Watch Dogs,” Pearce starts off seeking revenge for a loved one, but as he finds out more about the city, through hacking into its systems and inhabitants, he

becomes a “vigilante,” according to Guay.

He added: “It’s actually happening as we speak. It makes a more efficient city right? But it also creates the vulnerabilities we have in our game,” he said, insisting the game makes no value judgment on the complex and sensitive issue.

“We’re not trying to be moralistic about it. But we’re hoping that players, when they’ve finished the game, maybe start a conversation.

They can form an opinion about it,” he added.

“Watch Dogs” will be released in November, including versions for play on on Sony’s next-generation PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One consoles.

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Twitter has quietly opened up its various analytics tools to the public, giving everyone access to in-depth data about the people and brands who follow them, as well as the performance of their most recent tweets. The change was spotted by Christopher Penn, vice president of marketing technology at SHIFT Communications earlier this week, as well as Danny Olson, a digital strategist at Weber Shandwick. Users simply need to head to the Twitter Ads dashboard and click on the ‘Analytics’ tab at the top of the page to access the new features.

SYMANTEC CUTS STAFF

Security software company Symantec may lay off as many as 1,700 employees as early as today.

The cuts are part of a companywide reorganisation first announced in January as part of a turnaround plan instituted by Steve Bennett, Symantec’s new CEO, who joined the company 11 months ago. Bennett, a former CEO at Intuit and a veteran of General Electric, told Reuters in a January interview that the company has too many management layers and would be streamlined into 10 business units.

GAME ON APPLE! During the session, which is available as a video to all registered Apple developers via the WWDC app, it was also announced that Logitech and Moga are already collaborating on initial hardware designs for the game controller.

The certified third-party involvement was first spotted by Czech Apple blog Jablickar. A closer look at the presentation, however, revealed just how serious Apple is in making standardized game controllers a reality in iOS 7. Titled “Integrating with Game Controllers,” speakers ran through a fairly comprehensive set of app frameworks and other assets that will help developers code games for the proposed controllers.

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Entertainment BACK TOGETHER

CINE BYTES

Aadhi’s new film launched

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risha is back with a bang. After bagging the lead role in MS Raju’s upcoming film RUM, we hear that Trisha might be paired up with Suriya in Gautham Menon’s upcoming film Dhruva Natchathiram.

In fact, Trisha had earlier hinted that she would love to team up again with Gautham Menon post Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa’s release and she termed her role, Jessie as one of the best roles of her career. This will be the third time that Suriya and Trisha will be teaming up after Mounam Pesiyadhe and Aaru.

Suriya and Gautham Menon had earlier collaborated for Kaakha Kaakha and Vaaranam Aayiram, which were also released in Telugu as Gharshana and Surya S/O Krishnan.

Their new film, Dhruva Natchathiram, is said to be a thriller that revolves around a man who’s on a hunt to find someone important. The film’s first look featured a classified file with names of 11 people and that the hero must trace the 12th person, whose identity is not revealed, in the list.

The principal shooting of Dhruva Natchathiram is going to begin in Chennai on June 17 and a majority of the film will be shot in Chennai and New Delhi.

The film also stars Simran, Parthiepan, and Sudhanshu Pandey in important roles. AR Rahman will score the music.

new film starring Aadhi Pinisetty was launched earlier today in Hyderabad. Sathya Prabhas Pinisetty, Aadhi’s brother, is going to direct the film. Several dignitaries including Allu Arvind, K Raghavendra Rao and D Ramanaidu graced the opening ceremony. The principal shooting will begin soon. Aadhi will soon be seen in Kochadaiyaan.

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rishnam Raju raised quite a few eyebrows couple of days ago when he made a startling confession that he’s all set to direct a film with Prabhas in the lead role. If all goes well, the film is likely to go on floors in August this year.

Currently, Prabhas is busy with the pre-production of SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali.

Erica denies teaming up with Balakrishna

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Chai Time

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1 Brother's daughter, say 6 No longer in fashion 11 Devoured 14 Perfect in all ways 15 It has gutters to the left and right 16 Oft-heard boot camp word 17 Symbol for one wanting shorter locks 19 Creator of a branch division?

20 Fine wine attribute 21 Arachnid structure 22 Scene of the William Tell legend 23 Bad weather auto accessory 27 Coal-eyed creation of song 29 Commit a faux pas 30 Head-shaking responses 32 Body lotion ingredient 33 Half a bar order 34 CD selection 36 Syllables sung while skipping 39 ‘___ have to do’ 41 How a noted spider came?

43 Drab partner 44 They often have lox in stock 46 Decorative pitchers 48 Common tip jar item 49 Aussie hatchlings 51 Tamperer hamperer 52 Tennis term 53 Comprehensive 56 Cat, Stella or Ray 58 X ending 59 Compensation 60 Due east on a grandfather clock 61 Ruckus 62 Royalty of rhyme 68 Baseball great Hodges 69 Broadcast more than once 70 Place to seek sanctuary 71 Preposition in poetry 72 They can bear cafeteria food 73 Swap

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1 Penpoint 2 First lady McKinley 3 Always, to an old poet 4 Overthrow plotters 5 Tastefully luxurious 6 Faux finish?

7 Eiger or Eisenhut, eg 8 Prepares to stop 9 Jennifer Lopez title role of 1997 10 Fastener with a ring-shaped head 11 Pretend to be someone else 12 Bejeweled headdress 13 Stu of '50s TV 18 Fish that hitches rides 23 Bad smelling 24 Practice public speaking 25 Certain seafood entree 26 ‘Positive thinking’ advocate Norman Vincent 28 ‘May I have a ___ with you?’

31 Garbage boats 35 They provide prayer support 37 Bedsheet, perhaps 38 Acts as lookout, eg 40 Soil additive 42 Au ___ (with bread crumbs) 45 Financial backing 47 Deceptive dexterity 50 Not as fresh 53 Public persona 54 How low you can go 55 Multiheaded beast slain by Hercules 57 Goldsmith's ‘The ___ of Wakefield’ 63 Diane in ‘The Godfather’ 64 Elected ones 65 Reproductive cells 66 Conducted 67 45 degrees + 22.5 degrees

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CANCER

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LIBRA

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CAPRICORN

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Be prepared for an unexpected trip on the official front. Expenses likely to go up but they will be only towards performing good events at home. Self-confidence and courage levels are at their peak, which makes you successful in challenging tasks.

STRIP TEASE AGNES

Some are forced to make new debts. Misunderstanding with blood relatives and expenses due to children upsets you.

Employees get recognition for sincere and hard work. Written off old dues get collected for businessmen cheering them.

Avoid emotional decisions and anger. Health problem and minor hurdles likely in undertaken work. Long-pending wishes get fulfilled. Written-off old dues will be received with which you will keep the debt issues under control.

A happy atmosphere will prevail at home cheering family members. You exchange troubling vehicle for a new one. Govt work is likely to end favourably without any delay. You will take bold and wise decisions, which will yield desired results.

Unexpected expenses beyond your capacity might upset you.

Govt work ends with a delay.

Your creativity increases. Friends and relatives against you will realise their mistake and come back to your fold. A legal issue surfaces in ancestral property.

Your bold decisions will be well received. Misunderstanding with blood relatives likely to disappear. Treat your mother with due respect and accept her suggestions to avoid misunderstanding. Enemies become inactive strengthening you.

You fulfill all needs of your children and make them happy.

Your shrewd and soft approach attracts many. Administrative capacities likely to be appreciated by everyone at workplace.

Businessmen likely to get govt sops. Health looks fine.

Money comes from all expected sources. Some have a bright chance to buy a house of their choice. Some are likely to go abroad for a prosperous job.

Marriage talks progress well and end successfully. Unexpected fortune opportunity likely.

Old dues get collected to your surprise and improve the financial situation. You succeed in selling an old plot for expected price to purchase a new house.

Avoid inferiority complex and work with a confidence to achieve all-round success.

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ARIES:

GEMINI:

Queen of Cups – You focus more on long term and tend to ignore the short-term factors that could affect immediate day-today living. Think of today as well.

LEO:

Knight of Cups – You end up playing a crucial role in the life of a person who is not a friend nor related to you. Be sensitive to the needs of others.

LIBRA:

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Two of Cups – Singles are likely to meet an interesting person from the opposite sex and get into a long-term relationship. Marriage is also a possibility.

SAGITTARIUS:

Five of Swords – Some clash and conflict will take you off guard because you did not expect it. Put up paintings of happy pictures in the bedroom.

TAURUS:

Knight of Pentacles – You may face some technical connectivity issues, like the internet connection giving up or your phone having network issues. Stay calm.

CANCER:

Death – You are put in a strange situation where you begin to analyse dynamics of family relationships. It may all be new to you because you’re seeing differently.

VIRGO:

The Moon – You are stuck in a demand-supply equation, where decisions have to be made based on your instincts apart from the market realities.

SCORPIO:

Queen of Swords – You must get into the habit of making donations or any charity in cash or kind. Build this in the annual investment plan for long term.

CAPRICORN:

Ace of Pentacles – A surprise job offer will fall in your lap. You realise that you get more than you asked for. Now, maintain this job and relationships.

PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS

PISCES:

Strength – This is a good time for real estate deals. A property, especially residence, bought at this time is likely to bring good luck to the family.

NUMBER GAME

– You may find that your family members are being over-protective of you.

They are looking after you at all times.

This makes you want your own space.

SCRABBLE

AQUARIUS: King of Swords

POOCH CAFE

You march forward with selfconfidence and achieve whatever you planned to. Avoid interfering or advising others in their personal affairs as you will land in trouble. Businessmen advised to be careful before making new investments.

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Four of Cups – Information given to you through unreliable sources could be misleading. Do not go ahead with major decisions based on what you hear.

NON SEQUITUR

Some have a bright chance to buy a house or land. Your stock is set to pile up. Held-up work resumes now and gets completed successfully. Financial position is comfortable.

Success likely in all important assignments undertaken.

SUDUKO

Those in search of new jobs will get favourable news soon.

Sudden journey and increased expenses likely to upset you.

Profits for businessmen likely to improve. Health looks alright.

Financial position looks satisfactory, which will let you relax.

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BIG DADDY

CINE BYTES

Miley on Amanda: ‘It’s so sad; I was rooting for her’

M

iley Cyrus is speaking out after last night’s Twitter war of words from Amanda Bynes.

The former Nickelodeon star tweeted that the singer was “ugly” repeatedly, and even posted photos of Cyrus without makeup on. When asked about her feelings on the matter, the pop star offered her rationale for not reaching out to the She’s the Man actress directly.

Jennifer Garner joins Warner Bros. TV ennifer Garner is in JBros. business with Warner Television. The

Valentine’s Day actress’ production company, Vandalia Films, has entered a two-year overall deal with WBTV. Per the agreement, Garner will receive executive producer credit on projects that are developed and produced under the deal.

CHRIS HEMSWORTH says parenthood changed him ‘for the better’

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hris Hemsworth loves being a dad.

The actor chatted with E! News last night at the XBox E3 party in Los Angeles about parenthood and what he’s got planned for Father’s Day this Sunday.

“I think I’ll be working,” he told us.

“But I’ll see her at some stage, definitely, have breakfast or something,” Hemsworth added. “She’s a bit young to make me breakfast. She’s only 1.”

Although little India Rose can’t whip up a batch of pancakes or cook her dad a nice omelette just yet, she’s made a strong impact on her pops from the moment she entered this world.

“Yeah, for the better,” the actor said in response to whether fatherhood has changed him. “It puts things into perspective.”

AGENCIES

Ashton’s Jobs biopic gets new release date

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he Steve Jobs biopic Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher, has a new release date of Aug. 16. Distributor Open Road Films initially scheduled the movie to hit theaters April 19, the 37th anniversary of the month Apple Computer was founded. But in March, it was announced that the release would be pushed back.

Directed by Joshua Michael Stern, Jobs chronicles the Apple cofounder’s life from 1971-2001.

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NBA

BRIEFS

Heat bounce back to tie series

LeBron James had a game-high 33 points and 11 rebounds as Miami Heat defeated the San Antonio Spurs 109-93 in game four.

SAN ANTONIO: LeBron James had a game-high 33 points and 11 rebounds and Dwyane Wade scored 32 as the Miami Heat defeated the San Antonio Spurs 109-93 in game four of the NBA finals on Thursday.

Wade had his first 30-point game of the playoffs and Chris Bosh finished with 20 points and 13 rebounds for the Heat, who levelled the best-of-seven championship series at 2-2.

The defending NBA champions Miami made sure the league showdown would return to Florida for at least a game six on Tuesday. Pivotal game five is on Sunday in San Antonio.

Miami looked nothing like the team that was humiliated 113-77 in game three as once again they displayed their ability to make sensational recoveries from defeats.

The Heat are now a perfect 6-0 following a defeat in the post-season and all six wins have come by double digits. Miami hasn’t lost back-to-back games since January 8 and 10.

“Our guys understand the challenge,” said Spurs coach Erik Spoelstra. “We are not expecting for it to be easy at this level.”

Tony Parker had 15 points and 11 assists and Tim Duncan finished with 20 points for the Spurs, who were looking to take a stranglehold on the series after their dominating victory on Tuesday.

“It is one game,” Duncan said. “We

LeBron James #6 of the Miami Heat and Tim Duncan #21 of the San Antonio Spurs in action during Game Four of the 2013 NBA Finals on Thursday at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

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will make adjustments and see what happens next game.”

Parker was playing with a sore hamstring he injured in the previous game.

Spoelstra decided to shake up his lineup Thursday by starting forward Mike Miller. James also made good on his guarantee to play better after a dismal performance in the game three loss.

“I was just going as hard as I could

until the tank was empty,” James said.

Miami outscored the Spurs 28-17 in the fourth quarter after the teams were tied 49-49 at the half.

The Heat’s Big Three — James, Wade and Bosh — combined for 85 points which was just eight less than the entire San Antonio team.

“When Bosh, Wade and James score like that ... it is hard to beat them,” said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich.

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Vasishta open tennis tournament Results: Girls doubles under 14 semis: Abhigna/Sai Deepa bt Anuragha/Akhila 6-2, Sravani/Sai Sudha Reddy bt Chandikra Reddy/Syed Afreen 6-4 Finals: Sai Deepa/Abhigna bt Sravani/Sai Sudha Reddy 7-2 Boys doubles under 14 semis: Goutham/Anish bt Asheesh/Varsht Kumar 6-4, Anirudh/Lalith bt Siddharth/Sathwik Samaleti 6-4 Final: Anirudh/Lalith bt Ghoutham/Anish 7-4 Boys doubles under 12 semis: Ghoutham/ Anish bt Kasi Vishwanath/Asheesh 6-2, Nikhil/Anuraag bt Shashidhar/Yashwanth 6-3 Final: Nikhil/Anuraag bt Ghouthm/Anish 7-2.

Boys under-12 final: Reddy Chainta Pranav bt Sri Ram Suresh 7-0 Boys under-14 final: T. Akhilesh Reddy bt K Paresh 7-1 Mens first round: Shiva Prasad Reddy bt P Amith 7-0, S Santosh bt Ravi Kumar 7-1, Prakash Guru bt K Murthy 7-6 (3), C Justice bt D Abhishek 7-0 Mens second round: Shiva Prasad Reddy bt G Sri ram 7-2, Kumar Raju bt Mani Bhargav 7-0, S Santosh bt Mudassar Nawaz 7-1, P Ajay bt G Prateek 7-3, Raja bt Basavaraju 7-2, K Chaitanya bt P Samuel 7-1, Ramu bt Karthik 71, Addhi Raj Sandhu bt Manish 7-2, Prudhvi bt Aditya Sarwate 7-5, B Ruthivk bt K Paresh 7-2, K Santhosh bt Varnasi Omker 7-1, C Justice bt Uday Shankar 7-1.

Mens pre-quarters: Shiva Prasad Reddy bt Kumar Raju 7-1, P Ajay bt S Santosh 7-3, Raja bt K Chaitanya 7-3, Prakash Guru bt Ramu 7-1, Addhi Raj Sandhu bt Nareen 7-3, C Justice bt Akliesh Reddy 7-5, K Santosh bt B Ruthivk 7-2

Taylor back on CA board

SYDNEY: Former Test captain Mark Taylor was Friday recruited back onto Cricket Australia’s board following a change in Cricket NSW’s constitution. Taylor, who had been a member of the CA board since 2004, lost his place last year when the national entity was streamlined to nine members. But Cricket New South Wales have now altered the organisation’s rules so they can nominate an independent representative for a place on the CA board that is not from the state organisation’s board.

FORMULA ONE

CONFEDERATIONS CUP

Vettel: A very modern F1 champion

Brazil to kick off event in key World Cup test

LONDON: Bad news for Sebastian Vettel’s rivals — not only has he extended his contract but Red Bull are confident they have finetuned their car for Europe’s high speed circuits.

The triple champion’s consummate triumph last weekend in Montreal proved both he and his car are back in the groove after problems in Spain, where they led on the high-speed sections at the Circuit de Catalunya but came in fourth.

“I think that obviously set-up wise we made some progress here and we hope that that will continue into

the Silverstone weekend,” said Red Bull team chief Christian Horner in Canada.

“Malaysia also had very quick corners and we were strong there so I think we have understood some of the issues we had in Barcelona, and hopefully we can carry this form into the next few races.”

That means the heartland races of the European ‘season’ at which the controversial issue of tyre-wear may be Vettel’s only problem.

The Canadian GP, however, demonstrated that Vettel and Red Bull look to have sorted out that problem too.

BRASILIA: After months of angst over preparation delays, Brazil steps into the global spotlight Saturday when it kicks off the Confederations Cup, a key test of its readiness to stage the World Cup next year.

Six Brazilian cities: Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, Recife, Rio and Salvador are hosting the two-week soccer tournament, expected to attract some 355,000 Brazilians and foreign tourists.

Brazil, winner of the previous edition in South Africa in 2009, has this year dropped to a new low of 22nd in the rankings of world football’s governing body

A views of the “Mane Garrincha” National stadium in Brasilia, Brazil.Brazil will face Japan, Italy and Mexico in the Group A of the Confederations Cup. AFP/VANDERLEI ALMEIDA

FIFA. The Selecao is given little chance of lifting the trophy this time around. The other contenders are current World Cup holders and European champions Spain; European vice-champions

Italy, South American champions Uruguay; CONCACAF champions Mexico; Africa champions Nigeria; Asian champions Japan; and Oceania champions Tahiti, very much the minnows.

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Sri Lanka’s Sangakkara blows away England LONDON: Kumar Sangakkara smashed an unbeaten 134 off 135 balls as Sri Lanka stunned England by seven wickets in a high-scoring thriller on Thursday to stay afloat in the Champions Trophy.

The Islanders, chasing England’s seemingly impregnable 293-7, launched a spirited chase in the day-night game at the Oval to surpass the target in 47.1 overs and throw open the semi-final race from group A. Sri Lanka, who would have been knocked out of the tournament had they lost, are now level with England on two points each, one behind group leaders New Zealand.

Australia, the fourth team in the group, have one point.

The two semi-final spots will be determined after the last round of matches when England take on New Zealand in Cardiff on Sunday and Sri Lanka clash with Australia at the Oval on Monday.

Left-handed Sangakkara, cheered on by a big Sri Lankan contingent in the packed stands, anchored the chase with his 15th one-day hundred that was stud-

Champions Trophy points table Group A P W L T NR Pt Kiwis England Sri Lanka Australia

2 2 2 2

1 1 1 0

2 2 2 2

2 1 1 0

0 1 1 1

0 0 0 0

1 0 0 1

NRR

3 2 2 1

+1.048 +0.289 -0.517 -0.960

4 2 2 0

+0.979 +0.410 -0.086 -1.108

Group B India S Africa W Indies Pakistan

0 1 1 2

0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

ded with 12 boundaries.

Pinch-hitter Nuwan Kulasekara, who was sent in at the fall of the third wicket, hit a quickfire 58 not out during a match-winning partnership of 110 from 71 balls with Sangakkara.

Kulasekara, who had two previous one-day half-centuries to his credit, plundered five fours and three sixes that demoralised the England attack.

Seamer James Anderson claimed two wickets, but Stuart Broad went for 67 runs in 8.1 overs and Tim Bresnan gave away 63 runs in 10 overs.

England’s Jonathan Trott dives to avoid being run out during the ICC Champions Trophy match against England at The Oval cricket ground in London on Thursday.

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Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (2nd R) celebrates with Nuwan Kulasekara (R) as Graeme Swann walks by after Sri Lanka defeated England by seven wickets during their ICC Champions Trophy match at The Oval cricket ground in London, on Thursday.

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“We needed this win to be honest,” said Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews, who had called for an improved batting display after his team were shot out for 138 by New Zealand.

“Except for that final over from Eranga, our bowlers came back well on a pitch that played really well.

“And then Sangakkara batted so well. Its great to have a player like that at number three.

The management decided to promote Kulasekara because he had been batting well. And it paid off.”

Sangakkara put on 92 for the second wicket with Tillakaratne Dilshan (44) and 90 for the third with Mahela Jayawardene (42) to give Sri Lanka the perfect launching pad. England captain Alastair Cook praised Sangakkara’s batting, but hoped his team will bounce back against New Zealand in Cardiff.

“That was obviously an outstanding hundred,” Cook said.

“Any time you chase 300, someone has to play well. The pitch

quickened up a bit, but sometimes you have to give credit where it’s due.

“We knew we had to win one of our last two games, hopefully we will come back strongly at Cardiff.”

England’s total revolved around Jonathan Trott’s 76 and Joe Root’s 68 off 55 balls after Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field under overcast skies.

Cook chipped in with 59 and Ravi Bopara smashed 28 runs from the final over after Sri Lanka grabbed four wickets for five runs towards the end to make it 254-7 in the 48th over.

Bopara boosted the total with three sixes, two boundaries and a two in the 50th over sent down by seamer Shaminda Eranga to return unbeaten on 33 off 13 balls.

Root, the victim of what England cricket authorities said was an “unprovoked physical attack” by Australian batsman David Warner in a Birmingham bar over the weekend, hit five fours.

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SCORE BOARD England A. Cook lbw b Herath 59 I. Bell c Perera b Eranga 20 J. Trott lbw b Herath 76 Root c Jayawardene b Malinga 68 E. Morgan lbw b Malinga 13 J. Buttler c Sangakkara b Kulasekara 0 R. Bopara not out 33 T. Bresnan b Eranga 4 S. Broad not out 7 Extras (lb10, w3) 13 Total (for 7 wickets, 50 overs) 293 Bowling: Kulasekara 10-0-42-1, Malinga 10-2-58-2 (w1), Eranga 100-80-2 (w2), Mathews 6-0-28-0, Herath 10-0-46-2, Dilshan 4-0-29-0 Sri Lanka K. Perera c Bopara b Anderson 6 T. Dilshan c Root b Swann 44 K. Sangakkara not out 134 M. Jayawardene c (sub) Bairstow b Anderson 42 N. Kulasekara not out 58 Extras: (lb6, w7) 13 Total (for 3 wickets, 47.1 overs) 297 Bowling: Anderson 10-0-51-2 (w2), Broad 8.1-0-67-0 (w1), Bresnan 10-063-0 (w3), Root 3-0-27-0, Swann 100-50-1, Bopara 6-0-33-0 (w1) Sri Lanka won by seven wickets

30&31 Bravo ramps up pressure on ‘chokers’

India, Pakistan set to clash in ‘dead’ match

KULDIP LAL Agence France-Presse

CARDIFF: West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo (above) hopes that South Africa’s habit of ‘choking’ at major tournaments will work in his side’s favour when they meet in a winnertakes-all Champions Trophy clash on Friday.

Whichever team comes out on top in Cardiff will join already qualified India as one of the two semi-finalists out of Group B in a competition featuring the world’s top eight one-day nations.

Despite having had several fine limited overs sides since readmission, the Proteas haven’t lifted a major one-day trophy since winning the 1998 edition of this tournament.

Especially at World Cups, they’ve found some remarkable ways to bow out, be it a dramatic 1999 tie with Australia at Edgbaston when they had the match all but won or failing to read correctly the Duckworth/Lewis sheet for rain-affected fixtures on home soil four years later.

Hence the tag of “chokers”, one Bravo had no hesitation in using despite the fact the West Indies have not beaten South Africa in a one-day international since 2006.

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BIRMINGHAM: India and Pakistan clash in a Champions Trophy match in Edgbaston on Saturday that promises highvoltage action despite the academic nature of the contest.

What was expected to be the marquee battle of the eightnation tournament — tickets for the match were sold out within hours of going on sale last November — has been reduced to a dead rubber.

World Cup champions India are already through to the semifinals after winning both group B matches so far, while Pakistan have crashed out of the race with two successive defeats.

But sporting contests between the arch-rivals are never irrelevant for players and millions of fans across the globe as heroes turn villains — or vice-versa — depending on the result.

As India look to smoothen rough edges ahead of the semifinals, Pakistan will play for pride hoping to build on the 2-1 series success in India in December-January.

“I don’t think the Indian team has ever played a dead game,” skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said, referring to the huge fan following his side enjoys.

“The match is also important to improve in the areas we want to.”

Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore added: “It’s an

important match. It’s certainly not a dead game for us and we will look to give our best.”

Pakistan were let down by poor batting, having been bowled out for 170 by the West Indies and then dismissed for 167 by a depleted South African attack missing frontline strike bowlers Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Skipper Misbah-ul Haq and Nasir Jamshed were the only batsmen to offer resistance in the two games, which put the hardworking bowlers under additional pressure.

Misbah, who top-scored with an unbeaten 96 and 55 in both matches, conceded the batting failure cost his side dearly.

“There are a lot of positives to take from this tournament,” he said. “We bowled and fielded very well, but the batting has not been good. The batsmen are much better than what they have done here.”

Misbah, whose side was taunted by fans after the loss to South Africa, insisted the team were still very motivated to perform well against India. “When a team plays the way we have, cri-

ticism is bound to come,” he said. “Supporters are like that. They also praise you when you do well. We must now play to our potential against India. We should not go back empty-handed.”

India, meanwhile, justified their number one ranking in one-day cricket with two impressive performances against South Africa and the West Indies.

They piled up 331-7 against the Proteas to win by 26 runs on a flat Cardiff pitch, and then restricted the West Indies to 2339 at the Oval to win by eight wickets.

Warner sorry for Root attack

LONDON: Australia batsman David Warner on Thursday apologised to Joe Root after punching the England batsman in a Birmingham bar during the ongoing Champions Trophy.

“I am here today [Thursday] to put my hand up and apologise to Joe. I’ve let my team-mates, family and everyone down,” the 26-yearold told a news conference.

Warner said he had exchanged text messages with Root and that his apology had been accepted.

Earlier on Thursday, the Australian batsman had been

Australian cricketer David Warner (R) answers questions from the media as he sits beside team captain Michael Clarke during a press conference on Thursday.

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fined Aus$11,500 (£7,000, $11,000) and suspended until the start of the Ashes by Cricket Australia.

He will miss the rest of title-holders Australia’s involvement in the Champions Trophy, starting with their final group game against Sri Lanka at London’s Oval ground on Monday — a match they must win to have a chance of reaching the semi-finals — and their two warm-up matches ahead of the Ashes.

However, the opener will be available for the first Ashes Test against England at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, which

starts on July 10.

Warner said he was determined to play a role in the Ashes despite his second brush with the authorities in the space of a month.

Three weeks ago, he was fined Aus$5,750 over an expletive-ridden Twitter tirade at two Australian journalists.

“It’s up to me to be accountable for my actions, which I am, and try not to be aggressive like I did,” added Warner at his London news conference on Thursday.

“I’ve just got to move on and do everything I can to get picked for the first Test.”

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DARKNESS HALTS FIRST ROUND OF US OPEN

Darkness suspended play during the first round of the US Open with 78 golfers still on the course after two thunderstorm delays that halted play for more than four hours. Players will finish their first round starting at 1115 GMT Friday and move into the second round at Merion Golf Club.

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Phil thrills on damp day The American’s three under 67, sandwiched around a 3 hours 32 minutes play suspension due to the bad weather, was still the target by the end of the day as half the field were unable to complete their rounds.

First round scores Note: 78 players were unable to finish their first round due to inclement weather.

67 - Phil Mickelson (USA) 69 - Nicolas Colsaerts (BEL) 70 - Charl Schwartzel (RSA), Tim Clark (RSA), Jerry Kelly (USA), Rickie Fowler (USA), Jason Day (AUS) 71 - Watson (USA), Dustin Johnson (USA), Steve Stricker (USA), Justin Rose (ENG), George Coetzee (RSA), Charley Hoffman (USA), John Huh (USA), Ian Poulter (ENG), Kevin Phelan (IRL) 72 - Hunter Mahan (USA), Stewart Cink (USA), Shawn Stefani (USA), Nicholas Thomson (USA), Mike Weir (CAN), Pan Cheng-Tsung (TPE) 73 - Nick Watney (USA), Paul Casey (ENG), Marcel Siem (GER), Sergio Garcia (ESP), Padraig Harrington (IRL), Michael Kim (USA), Chris Doak (SCO), Jaco Van Zyl (RSA), Kevin Sutherland (USA), Ryan Nelson (USA) 74 - Peter Hanson (SWE), Lucas Glover (USA), Matt Kuchar (USA), Brandt Snedeker (USA), David Lingmerth (SWE), Martin Laird (SCO), Jason Dufner (USA), Henrik Stenson (SWE), Simon Khan (ENG), Jay Don Blake (USA), Brandt Jobe (USA), Randall Hutchison (USA) 75 - Cliff Kresge (USA), Aaron Baddeley (AUS), Louis Oosthuizen (RSA), Boo Weekley (USA), Matteo Manassero (ITA), Ryan Palmer (USA), Douglas Labelle (USA), Matt Weibring (USA), John Hahn (USA), Mackenzie Hughes CAN) 76 - Ryan Yip (CAN), John Parry (ENG), Ted Potter (USA), Michael Campbell (NZL), Wil Collins (USA), Harold Varner (USA) 77 - Bill Haas (USA), Keegan Bradley (USA), Rory Sabbatini (RSA) 78 - Rikard Karlsberg (SWE), Yui Ueda (JPN), David Hearn (CAN), Geoffrey Sisk (USA) 79 - Ryan Moore (USA) 80 - Roger Tambellini (USA), Robert Garrigus (USA) 81 - Andre Svoboda (USA), Cory McElyea (USA)

ALLAN KELLY Agence France-Presse ARDMORE: Phil Mickelson shrugged off an overnight flight scramble and an early morning thunderstorm to post the clubhouse lead in the 113th US Open at Merion Golf Club on Thursday.

The American’s three under 67, sandwiched around a 3 hours 32 minutes play suspension due to the bad weather, was still the target by the end of the day as half the field were unable to complete their rounds.

England’s former world number one Luke Donald was best-placed among the chasers at four under through 13 holes.

Tiger Woods, meanwhile, appeared to be struggling with an injury to his left wrist after jarring it while playing out of Merion’s thick and wet rough.

Mickelson skipped practise rounds at the course on Tuesday and Wednesday to fly back to California and attend his daughter Amanda’s eighth-grade graduation ceremony, then flew back in time to start the Open on Thursday.

The airplane landed at Philadelphia at 4:15 in the morning and the 42-year-old left-hander reached the course 87 minutes later, well ahead of his 7:11

starters try to match him, knowing that, due to the delay, they would be unable to complete their rounds by nightfall.

Mickelson, who will turn 43 on Sunday, played down the difficulty of the flight logistics, saying that as a professional golfer he was accustomed to the situation.

“I got on the plane at 8:00,

England’s former world number one Luke Donald was best-placed among those chasing Phil at four under through 13 holes.

am tee time.

Seeking a first US Open title after finishing runner-up a record five times, Mickelson then set about tackling Merion’s East course, hosting the US Open for the first time in 32 years.

That task he completed superbly, his sublime short game skills inspiring him to a 67, his lowest opening round in the US Open since 1999.

It gave him the luxury, as the clubhouse leader, of sitting back and watching the afternoon

Hecklers get Garcia’s goat After Garcia’s comment that he would serve Woods ‘fried chicken’ should they dine together, the Spaniard was taunted by a few spectators.

JIM SLATER Agence France-Presse ARDMORE: Sergio Garcia struggled with hecklers and poor shotmaking on Thursday at the US Open, opening with a threeover par 73 and being chided by some spectators over a racism row involving Tiger Woods.

After Garcia’s comment last month that he would serve Woods “fried chicken” should they dine together, considered an insult by African-Americans, the

Spaniard was taunted by a few spectators.

One clucked like a chicken when Garcia was near. Another yelled the Spanish words for fried chicken. Yet another was

the lone boo during polite applause as Garcia was introduced ahead of his opening tee shot.

“There were a couple here and there, but I felt the people were very nice for the whole day,” Garcia said. “I think that almost all of them were behind me and that was nice to see.”

Garcia’s troubled round, getting himself into trouble and trying to get out, proved an apt metaphor for his off-the-course issues with Woods.

landed 3:30. Had a few hours sleep. We had a rain delay here, so I went and slept for an hour. I feel great,” he said.

“So this is not that out of the ordinary; I do this about six, ten times a year where I fly back east red eye, play some outing and then come home. So it’s not out of the ordinary.”

With all of the 78 golfers who were in the 26 morning groupings having completed their rounds, big-hitting Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts was closest to Mickelson, two strokes back after a 69.

Wrist may hamper Woods T

op-ranked Tiger Woods stumbled to a two-over par start over 10 holes in Thursday’s first round of the US Open and appeared to injure his left wrist blasting out of Merion’s dense rough.

Woods might have hurt himself with his second shot on the first hole, following an errant tee shot by punching out of the deep grass. Woods shook his left wrist after making the shot.