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FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK...

In July 1985, musicians kicked off multiple concerts across the world as part of Live Aid, a charity concert to raise money for Africa. The Live Aid concerts featured some of the most iconic music performances ever. Here are some other rock concerts that changed the way music is performed. PG 16 & 17

HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

YSRC, CONGRESS

NO HOLLYWOOD ACTORS IN

BAAHUBALI PG 21

IN SECRET MOVE TO THWART

TDP HOPES In a crafty novel move, probably for the first time in the country, the Congress and the YSRC are said to have come to an unwritten understanding to field common candidates for sarpanch, who’ll be free to join either party after winning. Panchayat elections are to be fought on an apolitical plank. The real loser is the TDP.

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BHAAG MILKHA FLASH BHAAG MINTS WOMEN SHARIAT COURTS A REALITY `8.5 CRORE BECOME Unhappy with the judgements given by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, the moving life story of Indian sprinter Milkha Singh, managed `8.5 crore on its opening day. PG 22

qazis, muftis and maulvis, 'women shariat courts' along the lines of Darul Qaza (Islamic courts) will be set up in the state by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) in the next six months. In the first phase, the courts — Auraton ki Shariah Adalat — were set up in Dindigul (TN), Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad on July 6. In the second phase, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa, UP, Bihar, Karnataka and Jharkhand will be taken up in six months' time, said a BMMA office-bearer.

Rajamouli has denied rumours that a Hollywood actor has been cast in Baahubali.

FASHION FLAIR PG 15

Connoisseurs of fashion assembled for the Calantha fashion event that showcased the creations of Hamstech’s graduating students.

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city events

ART OF THE MATTER

Buddha, The Awakening, an exhibition of paintings by Maredu Ramu is on. Where: Taj Deccan, Banjara Hills When: Till July 15 Contact: 66661070

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES Hyderabad is on. Where: Shrishti Art Gallery, Jubilee Hills When: Till July 25 Contact: +91 40 23554485/86

WORKSHOPS

Aerobics Have fun while you burn calories at this aerobics workshop. Where:Colorama printers, Begumpet When: Till July 26, 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm Contact: 2373 0328 Puppetry STEPARC is holding a workshop for adults. Where: :Lamakaan, Banjara hills When: July 21, 10.30 am to 1.30 pm Contact: 96427 31329

FOOD & DRINK DAREDEVILRY: Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Military College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering was a grand affair. Dare devil display, para jump, para motoring display, hot air ballooning and band displays were some of activities organised during the event. When: Till 11 am to 2 pm Contact: 2329 9779

SHOWS

Isha yoga Learn the nuances of inner engineering under the guidance of Sadhguru. Where: Radha Swamy Ashram, West Marredpally When: July 17 to 23, 6 am Contact: 80086 24949 Mime Explore your expressions in Natvarya-a mime workshop by Indian Mime Academy Where: Sutradhar school of acting, Nampally When: Till July 20, 6 pm to 9 pm Contact: 8297117515

Music theory Theory on music by Hyderabad Western Music Foundation. Where: Lamakaan, Banjara hills

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Kathak performance Nritya Pravah: A kathak dance performance by Sanjay Joshi. Where: Ravindra Bharathi, Saifabad When: July 16, 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm Just for fun History of India Viritten will be performed by stand-up comedian Vir Das. Where: N-Convention, Madhapur When: July 27 Contact: 8790432354 Where: Palm exotica resorts, Shankarpally When: July 19 to July 21, 11 am to 2 pm Contact: 2329 9779

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Ramadan special Relish the season special iftar delicacies at these venues: Where: Viva, Taj Vivanta When: Till Aug 7, 5.30 pm to 11.30 pm

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TODAY’S QUESTION

YESTERDAY’S QUESTION

WILL RAHUL’S NEWFOUND INTEREST IN T BOOST BIFURCATION CHANCES?

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CRIME

HEALTH FEARS

Jilted girl attempts suicide A 24-year-old, who believed her boyfriend’s promises of marriage, developed an intimate relationship with him. He disappeared once she got pregnant. Mohd SUBHAN mohd.s@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: It’s the age-old story of cheating. A 24-year-old woman, who believed her boyfriend’s promises of marriage, developed a close relationship with him. In the bargain, she got pregnant and saw her lover melting away in the crowd. She attempted suicide AROUND THE

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but is struggling for life in a City hospital. Suchitra, a resident of Addagutta in Secunderabad, was working in a private fertiliser company situated in Karkhana. She came in touch

with a youth, Rajkumar, who too was employed in the firm. Their friendship developed into physical intimacy and she recently got pregnant. He forcibly got her to abort the pregnancy. After this incident, he started keeping a distance from the girl and gradually stopped coming to work. When she tried his mobile phone, she got a switched-off tone. Out of shame and frustration, police said, the girl consumed pesticide and tried to kill herself. She went to his home and told his brother, Ramesh Kumar, about the whole episode. The dark deed of Rajkumar came out when she was told that Rajkumar had been married for two years to a cousin of his. This relationship came as a shock to the family.

Radioactivity detected in Swiss lake GENEVA: Scientists have discovered a radioactive substance in sediment under a Swiss lake used for drinking water and situated near a nuclear plant, the Le Matin Dimanche weekly reported Sunday. While scientists cited in the report stressed there was no danger to human health, the discovery raises concerns about safety practices and a lack of transparency at the Muehleberg nuclear plant in northwestern Switzerland. AROUND THE

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The family pleaded that they did not know where he is now. She returned and consumed pesticide but was saved by the family. She is now recuperating in the hospital. She wakes up

every now and then and tells whoever is nearby the dubious behaviour of the youth she loved, doctors say. Police have registered a case and begun investigation.

STALKER

Man held outside Kerry's home The man was taking photographs of the top US diplomat’s home in Boston.

NEW YORK CITY: Boston police on Sunday arrested a man seen photographing the home of US Secretary of State John Kerry, and in possession of a pellet gun in his car. AROUND THE

The man was seen taking a picture of a window in Kerry’s home by the diplomatic security guard for the US diplomat, spokesman Glen Johnson said in a statement. Kerry was out at the time visiting his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, who is undergoing

LYON: Several dozen Greenpeace activists broke into a nuclear plant in southern France early on Monday, unfurling banners against atomic power, the organisation and police said. They hung banners reading "Tricastin: a nuclear accident" and "Francois Hollande: president of a catastrophe?" in reference to the French leader, according to Isabelle Philippe, a Greenpeace spokeswoman.

treatment at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital after suffering a seizure a week ago. The diplomatic security staff called in the Boston police, who questioned the man and discovered the pellet gun in his car. He was arrested for possession of an open bottle of alcohol, Johnson said.

The plant is believed to have caused a spike in cesium 137 found in the sediment of Lake Biel and dating back to 2000 through the discharge of contaminated waste water into the Aar river that feeds into the lake, about 20 kilometres downstream, the weekly reported. Geologists from Geneva University happened upon the spike while working on an unrelated research project in 2010, and chemists in the northern canton of Basel recently verified the findings, it said.

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The unidentified photographer was arrested for possession of an open bottle of alcohol. Cops also found a pellet gun in his car.

WORLD

Greenpeace activists break into French nuclear plant

CITY BRIEFS Fast unto death for United Andhra

Two Haryana smugglers arrested

BJP AP leaders mock ‘Rahul as PM’ bid

TDP leader Venugopala Chary joins TRS

Exclusive urology hospital in City

amaikhya Andhra Samithi State president G Kumara Chowdari Yadav has said they would launch fast unto death from July 20 at Indira Park. Seemandhra political leaders, who are supporting agitation for united AP, would also participate. “We have a right to conduct meeting in Hyderabad, which was capital of AP,” Yadav said.

wo men from Haryana, involved in arms smuggling, were nabbed and sent to judicial remand. The police also recovered eight countrymade ﬁrearms, 70 live cartridges, one dagger, one Bolero, two Tavera, three Qualis, three bikes and cash of `26,000 from their possession. The police also seized tools for removing locks of four-wheelers.

JP AP ridiculed the Congress move to bequeath the mantle of prime minister to Rahul Gandhi. BJP national general secretary Muralidhar Rao said that Rahul, who said once that taking birth in India is a sin, is unﬁt to hold any high ofﬁce. He said Rahul knows politics from books and has no exposure to the practical politics.

DP rebel leader and Mudhol MLA S Venugopala Chary joined the TRS today at Telangana Bhavan along with thousands of his followers in the presence of TRS chief KCR. KCR welcomed them into the fold by offering pink Kanduvas. KCR said each and everyone of the Telangana region was aspiring for a separate Telangana State.

ity-based renowned Asian Institute of Gastroenterology has added another feather to its cap by inaugurating an exclusive hospital for urology cases on Sunday. The hospital, Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology (AINU), is promoted by noted urologist Dr C Mallkarjuna and has 100-bed facility to treat the patients.

News MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013 LAST YEAR... HERE Park becomes dump

ast year we had reported how the park in MLA Colony on Road No 12, Banjara Hills had turned into a dumping ground, ﬁlled with rotting garbage and plastic bags. The law-makers’ abode was supposed to be a model for others, but the plot, which was demarcated as a park nearly 20 years ago, was being used for all other purposes but its intended one.

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NUMEROLOGY

6,00,000 inquiries about bribery have been received by prosecutors in China. The inquiries involve companies or individuals and all came in the first six months of this year.

You have to have a mortal fear of being an average person. I was scared of being an average person. I keep telling myself that I cannot be average, that motivates me. Daniel McKee, CEO of Iron Mc's training See page 9

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

T too hot for Congress to handle right now. It’s an extremely tough task for the CWC to decide on the division of Andhra Pradesh without considering its political fortunes in the 2014 polls. It would be too much optimism to expect a ﬁnal decision.

Curbing food price rise, Mamata-style. A number of government “fairprice” mobile vans selling chicken, ﬁsh and fruits have sprung up across Kolkata, as part of Mamata Banerjee’s people-friendly reforms.

Ivory Coast saves forest, but at human cost. Faced with the dilemma of trying to save a protected forest, which had become home to thousands of people, the Ivory Coast government turned to force.

Reptiles go missing from Australia zoo. Thieves stole a horde of exotic reptiles from an Australian zoo, including a baby alligator.

New York erupts over notguilty verdict. Acquittal of a man accused of killing a black teen sparked protests.

POLITICS

A great secret truce!

In a crafty move, probably for the first time in the country, the Congress and the YSRC are said to have come to an unwritten understanding to field common candidates for sarpanch, who’ll be free to join either party after winning. INKESHAF AHMED ahmed.m@postnoon.com

roots, there is not much difference between Congress and its offshoot, YSR Congress. The recent exodus of leaders from Congress to YSR Congress also contributed to this. Both the parties’ common goal is to defeat our party in the panchayat polls,” he said.

HYDERABAD: In politics, no one can be an enemy of another forever. This adage proves once again true in a novel move by two political parties in Andhra Pradesh panchayat polls. Two political players, the ruling Congress and the rival YSR Congress have reportedly come to an unwritten agreement to defeat their common rival, the TDP. Watching the big brothers, the smaller parties too have begun to weave their own webs of similar strategy, it is learnt.

MODUS OPERANDI

The modus operandi of these two political parties is that they are fielding a consensual candidate in village panchayat elections by reaching a secret understanding. This behind-thescenes manipulation ensures that either party wins but not a third party like the TDP or TRS or BJP. This scheme, termed brilliant in political parlance, is catching on fast in the coastal districts of the State such as

BARGAIN BEGINS

Guntur, Krishna, East and West Godavari. Postnoon learnt that both the ruling Congress and the opposition YSR Congress AROUND THE

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have already reached an understanding in over 100 sarpanch seats to this effect. Speaking to Postnoon on the issue, a senior Telugu Desam

Party leader and politburo member said that the reason for reaching such a secret truce between Congress and YSRC was to ensure victory of respective political parties in majority number of seats and weakening the chances of the TDP. But, he averred, people are not fools. They knew for long that YSRC is just an offshoot of the Congress and voting for it is voting for the Congess anyway. “For leaders at the grass-

On the other hand, most of the contesting candidates are also taking advantage of the election rules like the benefit of contesting in polls without any political affiliation. The rule has turned out to be a blessing in disguise for many candidates as key political parties are approaching them with lucrative offers in case of their victory in the elections. These lucrative offers range from monetary benefits to political posts in exchange of their allegiance of the victorious candidate after winning the elections. It has become a common scene at many places across Rayalaseema and Andhra region as it is witnessing a triangular contest between Congress, TDP and YSRC.

COSMETICS CRAZE

Japan’s snail therapy offers slimy route to beauty Snail slime is believed to have an anti-agei ng effect on human skin, and some cosmetics are already sold with essence of escargot. TOKYO: Having live snails crawling on your face sounds like the thing of nightmares, but in Japan one company is hoping people will be prepared to pay for it. Starting Monday, women who want to slough off dead skin, clear their pores or roll back the years can submit themselves to five minutes of molluscs. “Slime from snails helps remove old cells, heal the skin after sun burn and moisturise it," said Manami Takamura, a spokeswoman for Tokyo-based beauty salon Ci:z.Labo, as she placed three gastropods on a woman’s face. “In this way, you can have 100 percent pure snail essence directly on the skin." Snail slime is believed to have an anti-ageing effect on human skin, and some cosmetics are already sold with essence of escargot.

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But Ci:z.Labo beauty salon is going one step further in what it says is the first live snail treatment in Japan. As part of the salon’s “Celebrity Escargot Course” customers will get five minutes of snail therapy, along with massage and other facial treatments. The snails alone cost 10,500 yen ($106). Sayaka Ito said she had found the treatment so relaxing that she had almost fallen asleep. “You can feel the snails moving on your face. At first, it is surprising, but it’s actually rather nice," she said.“My skin really does feel smooth and moist." AFP

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ANALYSIS

T, too hot for CWC

It’s an extremely tough task for the CWC to decide on the division of Andhra Pradesh without considering its fortunes in the 2014 polls. It would be too much optimism to expect a final decision. PK SURENDRAN surendran.pk@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: As the Congress Working Committee (CWC) is expected to meet in New Delhi on July 26 or 27 to decide the fate of Telangana statehood, speculation is rife that nothing much could come up, for two reasons. The ruling triumvirate — the chief minister, PCCI chief Botsa Satyanarayana and governor ESL Narasimhan — are known to be pro-united Andhra for the sake of a strong state. It was Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s open plea for a strong development board for Telangana instead of bifurcation that turned the scale in favour of deferring a decision to the CWC.

GHOSTS OF PAST Clashes ahead of Bangladesh war crimes verdict AROUND THE

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DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets at protesters Monday, as violence erupted across the country ahead of the verdict on a top Islamist for allegedly masterminding atrocities during the 1971 liberation war. Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami party threw homemade bombs at police, after taking to the streets in several cities in support of the Islamist, who could face the death penalty if convicted. Journalists were among those injured after they were caught in the clashes in Dhalpur district of the capital Dhaka. AFP

It is known that Governor ESL Narasimhan too had given his independent report to the Union government some time ago, which remains a confidential one but political circles and TRS have termed him an united AP protagonist. It is learnt that CM N Kiran Kumar Reddy and the PCCI chief Botsa Satyanarayana will also be invited to the CWC meeting, where they may be asked to make a fresh presentation on the Telangana issue before the members. Both of them are known for not supporting division of the State.

MAYAVATI MISSILE The second reason for a decision

not favouring a division of the State is the fresh demands for smaller states in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere. BSP’s M

Mayavati’s demand for dividing UP into four smaller states comes as a damper to the bifurcation move. “It would be hitting a beehive if T is formed now,” warned a Congress MP, known for his pro-United Andhra stance. Another concern of the Congress is if it could get three-fourth of the 42 Lok Sabha seats if Telangana is constituted. Everything depends on that as the party can’t afford to lose AP seats especially when it is planning to make Rahul Gandhi prime minister. If the TRS does

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The second reason for a decision not favouring a division of Andhra Pradesh is the fresh demands for smaller states in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere. not give any credible assurance of merger, it may be difficult for pro-T decision. The Centre is worried at the fresh demands coming from several corners for division.

JUSTICE IN PART

China court compensates mum sent to labour camp, spares rogue cops BEIJING: A Chinese court awarded damages to the mother of a rape victim after she was sent to a labour camp for demanding her daughter’s attackers be punished, a spokesman said Monday. Tang Hui, who became a figurehead for critics of the “reeducation through labour” system after she was condemned to 18 months in a camp, won a total of 2,641 yuan ($430) following an appeal, a court spokesman told AFP. The court in Changsha, the capital of the central province of Hunan, awarded compensation on the grounds that local authorities had violated Tang’s personal freedom and caused her “psychological damage",

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Zhang said. But it rejected Tang’s demand that the police who sentenced her write a formal apology, because the “relevant people had apologised in court", he added.

The police chief of Yongzhou, who headed the committee that sentenced Tang, said during the hearing that he had “not acted with enough humanity or care", Tang told AFP earlier this month. She was released last August after just over a week in a labour camp following a public outcry over her case, which was given unusual prominence in staterun media and prompted speculation that the system would be abolished. The compensation award comes as a surprise after Tang lost her initial case. She herself had estimated the chance of success in her appeal as a “remote possibility". Tang’s daughter, 11 at the

time, was kidnapped, raped and forced into prostitution in 2006, prompting Tang to seek to bring to justice the abductors and the police she says protected them. Seven men were finally convicted in June last year, with two condemned to death, four given life sentences and one jailed for 15 years, but Tang continued to agitate for the policemen to face trial, and soon afterwards she was sentenced for “seriously disturbing social order and exerting a negative impact on society". China’s re-education through labour system gives police the right to hand out sentences of up to four years without a judicial trial. AFP

NATION BRIEFS Mumbai wholesalers go on strike against tax

Six killed in Uttar Pradesh accident

Woman chased and killed on Patna road

CPI-M candidate hubby killed during polls

Final trials of Arjun Mark II in August

MUMBAI: Wholesale traders have launched a two-day strike to protest against the pending Local Body Tax (LBT) imbroglio, ofﬁcials said here Monday. The provocation is the government failing to fulﬁll its commitment to set up a high-level committee to examine the LBT, which replaced traditional octroi, issue and make its recommendations.

LUCKNOW: Six people were killed and eight injured in a head-on collision between two vehicles, police said Monday. The dead include two women and two children, police said. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital. The accident occurred in Amroha, 375 km from Lucknow, said police ofﬁcials.

PATNA: A woman ran for her life on a public road but was chased and murdered in public view here Sunday, police said. Shakuntala Devi was chased in Postal Park locality here by some people, who ﬁnally caught up with her and attacked her with sharp weapons, killing her, Patna’s Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said.

BURDWAN: A CPI-M gram panchayat candidate’s husband was today killed and another party candidate beaten up allegedly by Trinamool Congress supporters in the panchayat elections in West Bengal, police said. Mohammed Sheikh Hasmat was the husband of Monowara Bibi who is a candidate of Madhudanga gram panchayat.

CHENNAI: The fully integrated modified version of India’s Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun Mark II would go for final trials in the first week of August in Rajasthan. Though trials of the updated version are presently on in Rajasthan, the fully integrated tanks would be sent for final trials by the Indian Army by August, sources told PTI.

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POLITICAL DRAMA

BJP slams Maya for RSS-VHP ban quip LUCKNOW: The BJP on Monday reacted sharply to BSP chief Mayawati’s demand of banning the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). Slamming the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister for demanding the ban, state BJP president Laxmikant Bajpai said: “Mayawati is rattled at the prospects of her party being reduced to being an also-ran in Uttar Pradesh. Hence she is making such wild demands.” Bajpai dared the Dalit leader to pressurise the UPA government at the centre to ban the RSS and the VHP and said that if that does not happen, Mayawati should withdraw her support to the UPA. He added that Mayawati should “remember that she became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh at the behest of the

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BJP and the blessings of the RSS”. The BJP leader said that Mayawati was making such demands to polarise the Muslim

vote in her favour. “While they call us communal, all parties, including the Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP) and the BSP are vying with each other to net the minority vote,” Bajpai told IANS. The VHP alleged that Mayawati was demanding a ban on the RSS, Bajrang Dal and the VHP to please fundamentalists in her vote bank among minorities. VHP spokesperson Sharad Sharma said: “She does not want to see the good work we have done. She is only concerned about getting minority votes.” Mayawati had Sunday demanded that the central government ban the VHP, RSS and Bajrang Dal. She had said that the Allahabad High Court’s decision to ban caste rallies in Uttar Pradesh would be respected, but her party would hold such castebased rallies under the banner of ‘Sarva Samaj Sadbhawna’. IANS

FALL FROM GRACE

Cop charged over double murder SINGAPORE: A Singapore policeman once portrayed as a model officer was Monday charged over the gruesome double murder of a businessman and his son in a case that has shocked the city-state. Senior Staff Sergeant Iskandar Rahmat, 34, was accused of killing car workshop owner Tan Boon Sin, 67, and his son Tan Chee Heong, 42, last Wednesday. The older man was fatally slashed in his home while his son’s body was found a kilometre away after being

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One victim’s body was found a kilometre away after being dragged under one of the family’s cars, leaving a trail of blood on a busy road as motorists watched in horror. dragged under one of the family’s cars, leaving a trail of blood on a busy road as other motorists watched in horror. Iskandar, once portrayed as a model officer on the Singapore Police Force website, abandoned the car and fled to Malaysia by scooter but was quickly arrested and repatriated to Singapore. Singapore media said the suspect, a married 14-year veteran of the force, was bankrupt and under an official investigation for failing to report his personal financial problems to his superiors. He was banned from carrying firearms while under investigation. There was no immediate indication of a motive for the murders but a police spokesman confirmed reports that Iskandar had attended to a theft complaint filed by the elder Tan in November last year, after which the sergeant was reassigned. AFP

UNREST

US envoy in Egypt to push for peace Under Secretary of State Bill Burns is scheduled to stay there until Tuesday. CAIRO: A senior US official flew into Cairo early Monday, hours after Egypt’s prosecutor ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamists. Under Secretary of State Bill Burns, the first US official to visit since the overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi, is scheduled to stay there until Tuesday, the US State Department said.

The US administration has still not decided whether Morsi was the victim of a coup, which would legally require a freeze on some $1.5 billion in US assistance to Cairo.

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Burns will push for “an end to all violence and a transition leading to an inclusive, democratically elected civilian government” at meetings in Cairo with various parties, it said. His visit comes as the new regime applies increasing pressure on Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, already in disar-

ray with key figures detained and others on the run. And it comes hours before opponents and supporters of Morsi are due to hold fresh demonstrations in the capital. International concern is mounting over the detention of Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, who was toppled in a popularly backed military coup on July 3. AFP

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ZIMMERMAN AQUITTAL

‘The people say guilty’

Many brandished signs bearing a portrait of Trayvon Martin and some, despite sweltering July heat, wore ‘hoodie’ sweatshirts, as the 17-year-old did the night he was killed in February 2012. BRIGITTE DUSSEAU Agence France-Presse NEW YORK CITY: Thousands protested in New York on Sunday against the acquittal of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, a day after his trial for killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin ended in Florida. Many brandished signs bearing a portrait of Martin and some, despite sweltering July heat, wore “hoodie” sweatshirts, as the 17-year-old did the night he was killed in February 2012. The protesters began gathering in lower Manhattan’s Union Square in early afternoon. A procession later began marching from the square north on 6th Avenue, under heavy police watch, and reached Times Square. By evening, there were several thousand marching. “The people say guilty," chanted demonstrators — some of whom came with their children. “I am appalled," said Carli VanVoorhis, a 21-year-old hairdresser. “The man was armed, the kid was not, and the man with

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resident Barack Obama appealed to Americans for restraint Sunday amid anger from civil rights activists and public protests against the acquittal of a man who gunned down an unarmed black teenager. On Sunday, the president tied the killing of the teenager to the problems surrounding gun use in the United States — an issue in which he tried but failed to push through new control measures in the US Congress.

A protester at a rally in Miami. AFP

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M Trayvon Martin supporters hold a rally in Times Square blocking traffic in Union Square in Manhattan on July 14, 2013 in New York City. AFP

the gun got away," she said. “If we say it was not a racial issue, we would be lying." Many in the crowd — who also chanted “no justice, no peace” — were black, but there were whites and Hispanics present as well. One sign urged: “Jail racist killers, not black

We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin Barack Obama The US President

youth," while many others declared “We are all Trayvon. The whole damn system is guilty." At least one marcher wore a t-shirt proclaiming “I’m black. Please don’t shoot?" “We have a big problem with race, and another problem is guns," said one speaker, Rodney Rodriguez. “If Zimmerman didn’t have a gun, he couldn’t have killed Trayvon Martin." Another protester, Derreck Wilson, 46, said the group had come “to say in a peaceful way why we are angry. We are angry, scared and anxious." “It’s cathartic," he said. “We all have the same desires. I want to be able to have my son to come home," added Wilson, who came to the protest from the traditionally African-American neighborhood of Harlem. Rhada Blank also came from Harlem with friends.

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When the verdict was announced, she said she thought about leaving the United States permanently. “I was sick to my stomach when I heard the verdict, I felt ashamed," she said. “I don’t feel good about being American today. I think we have a lot of work to do." “As far as people think we’ve gone, with the decision of electing (President Barack) Obama,

emories of the deadly April 1992 riots in Los Angeles, which broke out after a similarly racially-tinged case, still linger among US law enforcement officials.

this verdict shows we haven’t moved beyond race," said the former teacher who now writes for the theater. “People have not moved beyond their fears," she lamented. “That decision echoed what many people are feeling in the country. There is a fear of the black male." The case has, since the beginning, pitted those who think the 29-year-old neighborhood watchman — son of a white father and a Peruvian mother — killed Martin in self-defense, and those who think it was a murder sparked by racist assumptions.

Police officers push back a protestor on the 10 Freeway after demonstrators angry at the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of black teen Trayvon Martin walk onto the 10 Freeway stopping traffic in Los Angeles. AFP

WORLD BRIEFS Army training aircraft crashes in Bangladesh

Japan mulls nationalising islands

Call for calm as Belfast suffers 3rd night of riot

Two Koreas to start fresh talks on Kaesong

‘Strong explosion’ at Ecuador volcano

DHAKA: A Bangladesh Army training aircraft crashed in southeastern Partia sub-district Sunday but the pilot ejected safely, police said. Moﬁzuddin, police chief of Partia sub-district under Chittagong, around 240 km from Dhaka. However, Bangladesh Army said the army was not informed about the crash.

TOKYO: Japan may nationalise any unclaimed remote islands in its waters in a bid to bolster its territorial claims, a newspaper said Monday amid a dispute with China over one set. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is to establish a task force to research owners and names of some 400 remote islands, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.

LONDON: Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson on Sunday called for peace as a police ofﬁcer was hurt in the third night of disorder in Belfast. “It’s very important that this violence stops," said Robinson. “It’s very important that cool heads prevail in these circumstances and I hope people will obey the announcement.”

SEOUL: North and South Korea are to hold fresh talks Monday on reopening a joint industrial complex whose fate is seen as a touchstone for future reduction of tensions on the Korean peninsula. “I’ll do my best to reopen Kaesong and develop it into an international industrial park," South Korea’s chief delegate Kim Ki-Woong told journalists.

QUITO: Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano, which has been rumbling on and off since 1999, registered a “strong explosion” Sunday. It issued an “orange alert," the second highest warning level under red. The explosion on the eastern Andean range, soaring over 5,000 metres, came at 1147 GMT. It was heard even in Guayaquil on the Paciﬁc.

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Thieves break into Australian zoo, decamp with 23 reptiles

Stampede at boxing match venue kills 17

SYDNEY: Thieves stole a horde of exotic reptiles from an Australian zoo, including a baby alligator, leaving their keepers fearing Monday they could be destined for the black market. Twenty-three creatures, mostly snakes, lizards and geckos, were taken from their enclosures at the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney during a night-time raid on Sunday, senior curator Liz Vella said. “They had smashed through the enclosures and broken doors," she told AFP, in a robbery which lasted about seven minutes. “These guys obviously came in with the purpose of taking the animals. They definitely knew what they wanted." Vella said officials were still speculating on the motive behind the robbery, but usually such thefts were by young people who “wanted a bunch of reptiles for their home and to show off to their friends". "(But) it’s definitely a concern that they will try to sell them on the black market," she said. She said the black market value of the animals sold together was only

TIMIKA: Seventeen spectators were crushed to death at a boxing match in remote eastern Indonesia after supporters of the loser started a riot, police said Monday. “Seventeen people died in the crush, 12 of whom were women, and another 38 were injured and have been hospitalised for treatment," a police spokesman said. Around 1,500 people had watched the

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about Aus$10,000 (US$9,000) but their value to the keepers who had cared for them, often for years, was “a lot more". Reptile park staff said none of the animals stolen was dangerous but they

feared they may not survive being pulled from their specially-controlled environments, particularly during the cool of the southern hemisphere winter. They might also present a danger to each other if kept in close proximity. Vella said staff were devastated that the animals, which included an alligator hatchling, had been taken. Police are investigating the robbery. AFP

local championship match late Sunday nightwhen supporters angered by the outcome began throwing chairs. “Everyone else made a quick dash for the exit in fear the violence would get out of control, and dozens of people were trampled on," Jaya said. A witnesswas quoted by news website Detik.com as saying: “There are five gates to the stadium, but only two were in operation during the match. AFP

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Sydney savours small bar flavours One of the drivers of the growth in small bars has been their appeal to women, who up until the 1960s were banned from entering the public bar in many Australian pubs. MADELEINE COOREY Agence France-Presse SYDNEY: When Martin O’Sullivan opened his small Grasshopper bar in Sydney’s awkwardly-named Temperance Lane three years ago, his friends thought it was madness. What would entice drinkers down a tiny lane into a basement last inhabited by a printing business when there were plenty of lively pubs and beer barns nearby? “Everyone thought I was a nut case," he says. But in the ever-thirsty city the Grasshopper has flourished, at the vanguard of an explosion in small bars after a change in liquor licensing laws allowed a move away from the traditional large pub to intimate drinking holes. “It’s about the cultural change, because pubs have had a good run for some 180 years," says O’Sullivan. When the idea of amending liquor licensing laws to help bring smaller, boutique bars to Sydney was first floated it was scoffed at by then-president of the New South Wales Australian Hotel Association, John Thorpe.

women. And they weren’t coming in and getting drunk," says O’Sullivan. “We don’t have TVs, we don’t have the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship)," he says, adding that small bars tend to focus on quality wines, artisan products, cocktails and service.

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“We aren’t barbarians, but we don’t want to sit in a hole and drink chardonnay and read a book," the publican told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007. O’Sullivan said the comment struck a chord. “There couldn’t have been a better quote. A lot of men were like ‘I don’t mind a beer, but the idea of sitting in a pub that smells like cigarettes

with pokies (slot machines) in the background and the TAB (betting agency) isn’t particularly my idea of a lovely drinking establishment'." He says one of the drivers of the growth in small bars has been their appeal to women, who up until the 1960s were banned from entering the public bar in many Australian pubs, instead being ushered into the ladies’ lounge. “When these small bars started, there was a huge influx of

In 2008, the New South Wales state government agreed to change laws which cut the costs for some liquor licences. The move allowed small, boutique bars to flourish, with more than 70 opening within the city precinct, and many more across Sydney in the years since. Lord Mayor Clover Moore was instrumental in helping push through the law, believing the change would not only broaden options for drinkers, but bring other benefits.

“Not everyone wants to drink in a large pub or a noisy club, and small bars offer an intimate, boutique alternative," a council spokesman said. It means that a rash of distinctive bars have popped up in basements and other hidden niches in the city, including Stitch with its old-fashioned sewing-machines, the Baxter Inn whisky den, and Absinthe Salon which specialises in the wormwood spirit. O’Sullivan says despite the profusion, small bars see each other as complementary rather than competition, adding that he is always happy to point drinkers in the direction of other establishments, such as the Mojo Record Bar. Natalie Ng, who co-manages the warm bar hiding behind a vinyl record store, says it caters to the after-work drinkers as well as music lovers. “Being a music bar we don’t have a certain genre so to speak, but we feed off our sales in the record store," she says of the music, which stretches from old school 60s and 70s hits, rock ‘n roll, to swing, funk, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE PERSON From Kansas City to Hyderabad, celebrity fitness trainer and founder of Iron Mc training Daniel McKee has come a long way, his aim now being to bring fitness to the City. ARUN D YELLAMATY arunyellamaty@postnoon.com HYDERABAD: Celebrity fitness trainer Daniel McKee says the first weighlifting he did was putting hay for the cattle. “I grew up on my family’s cattle farm near Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States,” he recalls. “I always say the first weightlifting I did was putting hay in for the cattle. This kind of work as a youngster gives one a good base of strength, which is what you can build upon when you get older. I also played sports, like football, basketball, and baseball and when I was 19, I started working out and also studying in-depth about it. I went to natural body building competitions, completely against steroids.” You see him and you are certain the foundation is a strong one. Daniel is a huge man and that his build is without the help of an iota of steroids is fascinating. Daniel who has trained celebrities, models, athletes in power lifting, explosive lifting, athletics, martial arts, boxing and self-defence is the man who runs Iron Mc’s training. He was a champion bodybuilder and strongman there at the regional level back home. So what’s he doing in Hyderabad? “I was living in New York and saw the fast life there and after that I wanted to go and be somewhere peaceful and during this time I met a man from Hyderabad on a train in New York, who suggested I should visit Hyderabad. I always wanted to come here, so chose to come here. I initially wanted to stay here for a month, but liked the City and culture and extended my stay,” he says. The first celebrity he trained was actor Navdeep. “I went to a gym here and was approached by actor Navdeep and asked me whether I would be interested in

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training him; everyone who were at the gym were watching me and were surprised at the way I trained. So while training Navdeep and living here, I thought, why not stay here and help people here get fit.” Daniel has also trained other celebrity trainers. “Apart from training many international models in New York, I trained Leandro Carvalho, who is a very big super model trainer himself. I learnt a lot from him, too. He had come to me to learn power training.” Elaborating about what his new fitness regime is, Daniel says, “Power Clean is something I have not seen here in many gyms here. Power Clean imbibes cardio and helps in building overall athletic ability for professional athletics and has many other benefits.” AROUND THE

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“I don’t want people to think about how they look, anyone can do body building — pump up with steroids to get a good-looking body. But, the main focus is if you cannot perform athletically, everything is in vain, it doesn’t matter. When people go out or go on a camping trip, everyone wants to do their best, they want to be better than their friends. That is what they should be thinking at the gym: good body will follow. So, at the Iron Mc, we concentrate on performance, and to build a force to transform.” So what keeps him motivated? “I have always followed a philosophy from childhood: you have to have a mortal fear of being an average person. I was scared of being an average person, I keep telling myself that I cannot be average. That motivates me. I tell my clients at Iron Mc too, that they cannot be an average person, you have to be different above all.” People can get in touch with him at www.ironmc.in, Phones: 040 68888113 or Email: info@ironmc.in.

I don’t want people to think about how they look, anyone can do body building — pump up with steroids to get a good-looking body. DANIEL MCKEE Celebrity ﬁtness trainer

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Militants kill 3 in Egypt attack

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CAIRO: Militants killed at least three people Monday and wounded 17 when they fired on a bus carrying workers in the North Sinai town of Al-Arish, security and medical sources said. Military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Aly said in a statement that a "terrorist group" had been targeting a police vehicle but hit the workers' bus by mistake. A medical source confirmed the toll, adding that "many of those injuries are critical."

Fireworks burst around the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday as part of France's annual Bastille Day celebrations. AFP/FRED DUFOUR

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ENVIRONMENT Faced with the dilemma of trying to save a protected forest, which had become home to thousands of people, the government turned to force. If we are chased out, there’s only one thing left for me: to await my death. Moussa Diaby

Ivory Coast saves forests... at a cost

CHRISTOPHE KOFFI Agence France-Presse

SASSANDRA: It was a brutal end to a long-term problem. Faced with the dilemma of trying to save a protected forest, which had become home to thousands of people, the Ivory Coast government turned to force. Soldiers, some armed with rocket launchers, and bulldozers were sent in to reclaim the southwestern forest of Niegre. In a swift operation last month, the army completely razed the small town of BalekoNiegre, tucked away in the tropical forest of the Sassandra region, about 360 kilometres west of the commercial capital Abidjan.

Little was spared: brick houses and clay huts were flattened, and the local school, church and marketplace were demolished. Camps deeper into the forest were also destroyed. The government says the operation was to preserve Ivory Coast’s woodland from illegal exploitation by people, often farmers, who squat the land. “The government has decided to take back control of its protected forests, which slipped away from it for 10 years," Minister of Water and Forestry Mathieu Babaud Darret said. The June evacuation is believed to have left at least 20,000 people who had been living on the land for years bereft of homes and employment. “We had occupied the protected forest in search of food," local farmer Raymond N’Dri Kouadio told AFP. Those who had moved to the forest had done so to grow cocoa, of which Ivory Coast is the world’s leading producer. Leon Koffi N’Goran, a man in his 80s who lived in the Niegre forest for 28 years, acknowledged that the villagers were engaged in “clandestine” acti vity. But the evacuation was “brutal and surprising", he said. Many of those who were forced to flee complain of more sinister abuses. The soldiers “even raped

girls and they took away from me two motorbikes, 800,000 CFA francs (1,200 euros, $1,600 dollars)", one resident said. The claims of rape have been denied by authorities. The government says it acted as part of a policy to regain control of protected woodland, exploited illegally during a decade of rebellion and warfare culminating in post-electoral violence in 2010-11 that claimed 3,000 lives. During the years of troubles, many people began living in the forests, ignoring the government ban covering tracts of land rich in plant and animal life. Sometimes, local warlords would “privatise” entire zones to

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In a swift operation last month, the army completely razed the small town of Baleko-Niegre, tucked away in the tropical forest of the Sassandra region, about 360 kilometres west of the commercial capital Abidjan.

PORT MORESBY: Australia on Monday said it will send 50 police personnel to Papua New Guinea to help tackle chronic law and order problems, a day after armed soldiers attacked people indiscriminately at a hospital. The incident at the Port Moresby General Hospital occurred just hours before Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd arrived in the capital for talks with his counterpart Peter O'Neill. Rudd announced officers will be deployed by the end of the year. AFP

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vory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) leads the world in production and export of the cocoa beans used in the manufacture of chocolate,[1] as of 2009, supplying 30% of cocoa produced in the world.

exploit their resources. Darret is convinced that it is time to act to prevent “the abusive and illegal exploitation” of some 7.4 billion acres of remaining forest in Ivory Coast. Forest cover has dropped drastically since the 1960s, when it stood at 16 million hectares. Deforestation is blamed largely on the timber trade and the growth of the cocoa sector. The desire of the Ivorian government to protect its forests appears to have support in Europe. Conservation experts say the exploitation of forestry has been aided by corruption at government level. Authorities have said they may provide for the people of Niegre who lost their homes, though it is unclear how. Many of the villagers have since sought refuge in other settlements, often with relatives. Now people occupying other protected forests also fear for their future.

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IRAQ

Dungeon for a dictator Saddam’s torture centre Red House has been made a museum.

GUILLAUME DECAMME Agwence France-Presse SULAIMANIYAH: Kamiran Aziz Ali grimaces and leans forward, his hands behind his back, re-enacting the moment in January 1990 when Saddam Hussein’s henchmen flung him into a jail cell in the “Red House”. “I am still in pain,” Ali says. “I cannot sit down for a long time anymore.” But mercifully for Ali, his return to the cell where he was jailed was not for real. For years an infamous torture centre earmarked for Kurdish rebels fighting the ex-dictator’s

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regime — Kurdish fathers would threaten their sons with being sent to the Red House for not doing their homework or other misdeeds — the Red House is now a museum. Once used to extract so-called confessions from fighters opposed to Saddam, since 1996 the Red House has exhibited the torture used by regime loyalists before the three-province Kurdish region of northern Iraq gained some autonomy — and

respite — from the dictator’s rule. Officially called the “National Museum In Order Not To Forget”, locals still refer to it by its Saddam-era nickname. The concrete building lies in a wealthy neighbourhood of Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan’s second city, 270 kilometres (170 miles) north of Baghdad. While the red paint that covered its walls has faded over time, the bars and barbed wire that stopped inmates from escaping are still in place. When Iraqi Kurdistan was under the yoke of Saddam’s regime up to 1991, several hun-

dred Kurdish rebel fighters were imprisoned in the Red House, accused of “subversion”. Among the prisoners was the current governor of Sulaimaniyah province. It took six years to build the facility, which was designed by engineers of the former East Germany, according to Ako Gharib, director of the museum. “This was not a prison in the conventional sense,” he says. “It was an ‘interrogation centre’. Detainees stayed here for six to eight months and would then be transferred to Abu Ghraib or Baghdad,” he adds, referring to a town just west of the capital that houses one of Iraq’s infamous prisons. “Interrogation” at the Red House was a euphemism in Saddam’s era for the barbaric means that the General Security Directorate used to extract “confessions” from inmates. In the 1980s and early 1990s, each room in the facility was dedicated to a specific form of torture, according to Gharib. In one soundproofed office, museum visitors are shown a likeness of a detainee whose hands are tied to a metal pipe on the ceiling, his feet about 50 centimetres (20 inches) off the ground. In a second room, guards would tie inmates’ feet to a metal bar held at waist height, while another guard would beat the detainee’s feet with an electric cable or metal pipe. The beatings would last between six to 12 hours at a time. Ali, now a civil servant in Iraqi Kurdistan’s education min-

istry, suffered a different form of torture. Having joined the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan — the rebel group that is now the political party of Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani — in the 1970s, he was arrested and thrown in the Red House. The words of his tormentors are still fresh in his mind. “They told me, ‘if you confess we will not torture you, and if you will not confess, we will put a power cable on your penis and pass an electric current through it.’” “I still have terrible back pain,” he continues. “It dates

back to my arrest. I have pain in my spine. I cannot sit down for a long time, otherwise I suffer horrible pain.” He was freed when a March 1991 uprising in Sulaimaniyah against Saddam’s forces put an end to the Red House’s activities. Memories from the Red House, however, are still vivid. “This building was a dungeon for a dictator,” he says. “We can never forget.”

WEST BENGAL

Curbing price rise, Didi style KOLKATA: Providing cheaper food is good politics for any government. And the Mamata Banerjee led West Bengal government has been doing just that by dotting Kolkata with mobile vans that provide fish, chicken, vegetables and fruits at reasonable prices to the consumer. A number of government “fairprice” mobile vans selling chicken, fish and fruits have sprung up across Kolkata. Around 21 such vans, that attract attention with their message, now sell organically dressed chicken at prices well below the market rate. Eight stalls deal in fish and with the advent of Ramadan, half a dozen fruit stalls have opened. “Chicken prices had shot up above `200 a kilo. That is when we decided to step in. The motive was

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two-fold — check the rising prices and discourage the illegal slaughter of the birds on pavements,” Pradip Majumdar, advisor to the chief minister on agriculture and allied sectors, told IANS. Majumdar said with the govern-

ment chicken shops doing brisk business, the prices have now dropped to below Rs. 150 - the ceiling fixed by the state. “Basically, it is a mechanism to keep the prices of these commodities under control and set up a pricing benchmark to be followed by the market,” said Majumdar. While there is now one unit where the chickens are dressed and packed and sent to the stores, all the stalls would soon be equipped with advanced machines for providing organically dressed chicken directly to the customers.

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Antarctic nations to wrestle again over sanctuary plan The guardians of Antarctica’s marine wealth gather in Germany on Sunday for a fresh round of talks on creating the world’s largest ocean sanctuary.

CELINE SERRAT AND MARIETTE LE ROUX Agence France-Presse PARIS: The guardians of Antarctica’s marine wealth gather in Germany on Sunday for a fresh round of talks on creating the world’s largest ocean sanctuary. Two plans of unprecedented scope are on the table, aimed at protecting vast, pristine waters and 16,000 species from human predation. But whether one scheme, both — or none — gets approval is unclear, given Russian and Chinese concerns that the restrictions are too draconian. One proposal, floated by the United States and New Zealand, would cover 1.6 million square kilometers (640,000 square miles) of the Ross Sea, the deep bay on Antarctica’s Pacific side. The other, backed by Australia, France and the European Union (EU), would protect 1.9 million sq. km (733,000 sq. miles) of coastal seas off East Antarctica, on the frozen continent’s Indian Ocean side. The three-day meeting in Bremerhaven, Germany, gathers 24 nations plus an EU delegation in the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

Conservationists are particularly worried for the toothfish, a predator species that grows slowly and reproduces late in life, which makes it vulnerable to overfishing of juveniles.

(CCAMLR). The CCAMLR is a treaty tasked with overseeing conservation and sustainable exploitation of the resources of the Southern Ocean. It aims to fill a gap left by the Antarctic Treaty that came into force in 1961, which addressed the land of the continent but not its surrounding waters. For nearly all of its 32 years, the CCAMLR — pronounced “cam-lar” — has barely flickered on the world’s political radar. But that is now changing as

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he Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is a treaty tasked with overseeing conservation and sustainable exploitation of the resources of the Southern Ocean.

the world’s fish stocks reel from decades of plundering and industrial trawlers venture ever farther to feed the planet’s surging population.

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High-profile campaigns about overfishing have also pushed the issue of the Antarctic’s oceans higher up the agenda. “Fishing has so accelerated on many parts of the globe that 85 percent of fish stocks are overexploited,” said Andrea Kavanagh, in charge of the Southern Ocean Sanctuaries campaign at the US green

research group Pew Environment. “Creating those protecting areas would more than double the amount of protected oceans in the world.” Robert Calcagno, director of the Monaco Oceanographic Institute, said the waters around Antarctica were a vital link in the ecological web. “The Southern Ocean is of major importance, given its wealth of biodiversity, including fish that can live in waters below zero degrees (Celsius, 32 degrees Fahrenheit),” he said.

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Telegraph service passes into history

The telecom and IT revolution and improved teledensity have made India’s 163-year-old telegraph system redundant, with the last telegrams being sent out at the close of business hours on Sunday. NEW DELHI: No longer will people be able to romance through telegrams just as Raj Kapoor wooed Vyjanthimala in the sixties’ hit movie Sangam. No longer will one be able to book a telegram through a code. For instance, “Heartiest Diwali Greetings” was code 1,”Happy Easter” was code 36, “Many happy returns of the day” was code 5, “May Heaven’s Choicest Blessings be showered on the young couple” was code 16, and so on.

It was a missive that brought both joy and grief, it was the quickest way to communicate. Now, the telecom and IT revolution and improved teledensity have made India’s 163-year-old telegraph system redundant, with the last telegrams being sent out at the close of business hours on Monday. “We have around 1,000 employees left now in 75 offices across the country. They all will be deployed in other BSNL departments like broadband,

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landline and cellular divisions,” Shameem Akhtar, senior general manager, Telegraph Services of state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) told IANS. India owes its telegraph system to its erstwhile British rulers who brought it to the country in 1833 to establish a communication system between

their capital Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Howrah. During 1982-83 there were some 45,000 telegraph offices across the country, recollected Shyam Lal Chhokar, sub-divisional engineer, Telegraph Services. The annual telegraph traffic during that period was 75.2 million, which has now fallen to 72,000, prompting BSNL to scrap the service as it felt it had lost its relevance in this age of cutting-edge technology. IANS

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Business

ETIHAD SEALS $200 MN SIMULATION DEAL Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has purchased seven state-of-the-art full flight simulators worth more than $200 million.The simulators bought from Canadian manufacturer CAE will be based at the airline’s training academy in Abu Dhabi.

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The ‘smart’ advantage People today are living smart and that is why most prefer smartphones. Going by trends, come 2015, one in every three phones sold will be a smartphone. PRUDHVI RAJU K prudhvi.k@postnoon.com

he mobile phone plays an integral part in the personal and professional work of many. With technology evolving constantly, a mobile has become much more than a talking device, capable of doing many things from chatting to capturing photographs. “Unlike the West, people in India do not want to carry multiple devices. It is the same

The trial of former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre, who is accused of misleading investors about risky assets linked to the US housing market meltdown, started Monday in New York. Tourre, a 34-year-old Frenchman also known by the nickname “Fabulous Fab,” has been charged with fraud by securities regulators, in connection with a fund which lost investors around $1 billion. His trial, which is expected to last two to three weeks, will be heard in a Manhattan courtroom. Goldman Sachs, which was also named in the initial SEC complaint, is no longer sitting at the defense table, having agreed to pay a record $550 million to settle the government’s charges of fraud.

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device that they want to use for talking, chatting, listening to music and also use for clicking pictures at times. Indians are trying to exploit these features of mobile phone to the maximum extent. Devices that have range of features at a decent price are what people want to buy,” says TS Sridhar, Regional General Manager, Nokia. People are constantly looking for speed by which they can do multitasking. For instance, they want to browse the Internet and at the same time enjoy listening to music. Customers are also increasingly chatting through not only SMS but by various other online applications like Whatsapp, WeChat etc... Wifi penetration is also on rise, not only offices but also schools and colleges are providing these networks for students enabling the increased usage of smartphones. The other trend that is pick-

is the amount the Israeli cabinet has approved for the plan regarding the development of the Negev Desert.

ing up in the country is the usage of dual sim phones. “Today, Around 70 per cent of the mobile market is held by dual-sim phones. Nowhere in the world, the dual sim phone market is so strong like India. People are splitting sims for personal and professional usage. Dual sim has become a necessity and people want it even in the smartphone range. For instance, customers expect their mobile phones to have a camera, in the same way, dual sim has also become a must-have phone feature, “ explains Sridhar. In contrary, to people’s belief, data usage is still high in 2G networks. 2G accounts for around 80 per cent of the data usage in the world. Experts say it takes time for the penetration of 3G and to capture the market. Many first-time buyers opt for feature phones that fulfils their basic requirements. But, while they are upgrading their

Top used features on smartphones n IMAGES n MESSAGES AND CHATTING n BROWSING n SOCIAL NETWORKING n MUSIC

phones, the look for more features. The current trend, what is known as Replacement market is enabling the growth of smart phones. According to a third party data, one in every 10 phones sold is a smart phone. By 2015, one in every three phones sold will be a smartphone. Commenting on downloading of paid apps, Sridhar said, “The ecosystem is getting better. For instance, Nokia’s operator billing pushed the app sales many fold. Especially, people in tier-2 cities and few in tier-1 cities have doubts in revealing credit card information. However, with this system, the amount will be deducted from the pre-paid account or added to the postpaid bill. If customers like some app, they are ready to spend `10 on it . In a way, the strengthening of ecosystem will push the sales and benefit the developer and the store.”

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SLOW GROWTH FOR CHINA China’s gross domestic product expanded 7.5 percent in the AprilJune quarter, official data showed Monday, a second consecutive slowdown in growth as worries mount over the health of the world’s number two economy. The GDP figure matched the median forecast in a survey of 10 economists by AFP. Growth in the first six months of the year came in at 7.6 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said. Growth in the first three months of the year was 7.7 per cent, a decrease from the 7.9 per cent recorded in the last quarter of 2012.Results so far this year have proved disappointing after last year’s 7.8 per cent annual performance, itself the worst in 13 years.

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Comment If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. Mahatma Gandhi Father of the nation

Signs of war in South Sudan HANNAH MCNEISH Agence France-Presse

rom the air, the vast lands of South Sudan’s conflictwracked Jonglei state look peaceful before the white plumes of smoke come into view: thatch huts still burning from an attack. “There are houses on fire," the captain of the small plane shouts, as he swoops down low towards billowing clouds of smoke spiralling from a thatch hut for a closer look. Nearby, two grey circles — looking like the remains of giant cigarettes stubbed out in a village — are all that is left of homes already razed to the ground. Just out of reach of the flames, around a dozen men in dark green uniforms scan the sky for the plane above. Elsewhere, more than 100 men in similar green battledress form a snaking line through the bush, determinedly marching south. Tit-for-tat cattle raids and reprisal killings are common in this grossly under-developed state, awash with guns left over from almost two decades of civil war. But the latest upsurge in fighting that began around a week ago is of a different scale and nature. Local government officials have reported columns of hundreds — if not thousands — of gunmen in a tribal militia fighting their way towards the heartland of a rival community. Lou Nuer gunmen from northern Jonglei are heading south towards Pibor, an area of their rivals, the Murle. Pibor County Commissioner Joshua Konyi, speaking from the impoverished town earlier this week, said Murle civilians were fleeing ahead of the gunmen, fearing a repeat of previous such attacks.

HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTS

In short words, and small phrases, it conveyed a lot. With email and mobile phones doing a much better job, the telegram had become redundant. And today the service has been scrapped. Now they will live in the words of our grannies and in novels and stories.

LEAD KINDLY LIGHT

A school that teaches Afghan girls to say no

THE INSIDE STORY Edouard GUIHAIRE

ah Yaya is an Afghan village set in stony hills and steeped in traditions that limit women to second-class status in this desperately poor country ravaged by Taliban insurgency. But in a school set up by an Afghan-American woman named a 2012 top 10 hero by TV network CNN, girls are learning to dream of a different future, of saying “no” to the dictats of their elders. Just a 40-minute drive from Kabul, the village feels as if it’s in the middle of nowhere. The road winds through the arid, dusty hills that encircle the Afghan capital, past mud-brick homes. Women and girls wear burqas. Only once they are safely behind the gates of the Zabuli Education Center, do school girls take them off and leave them hanging on a banister. Founded by Razia Jan as part of her battle to educate girls in rural Afghanistan, the school wants to exact change in a country notorious for dreadful women’s rights. “I have 400 girls," says Jan, who founded the school in 2008.

Funded by private donors, it offers a free education to pupils. “We made these girls speak for themselves, so that if something terrible happens in their life and they don’t want it, they fight it, they have the force to say no, no, no," she added. “The more education there is, the more doors open for them." A massive increase in the number of girls going to school since the fall of the repressive Taliban regime in 2001 is touted as one of the biggest achievements of Western intervention in the country. From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban banned girls from going out to school. According to the Afghan education ministry, 42 percent of children in school are girls. But poor attendance and absenteeism are major problems. Regular, high-profile cases of abuse, intimidation and violence underscore that for many women in parts of the country, little has changed. But the Zabuli Education Center provides girls with better than average teaching. Girls learn English as young as four, and they also have access to computers and to the Internet. Some profess to being fans of US superstar Jennifer Lopez and Canadian heart throb Justin Bieber -- pop singers far beyond the traditional horizons of

Afghan culture. Zuhal Ansaari, 15, is passionate about art and is convinced that one day she can realise her dreams of becoming a teacher. “Women and men have the same rights," she told AFP. “If a woman is educated, her role in the family becomes more important, she can teach her children and have a better life, because she knows at least the same thing as her husband." Nazaneen Jahd, 14, even believes that one day a woman could lead the country if she is properly educated and gets the chance. “I hope that very soon there will be one," she said. According to the UN Girls’ Education Initiative, the literacy

rate for Afghan women aged 1524 is 18 percent, compared to 50 percent for boys, and only 13 percent of girls complete primary school. It quotes statistics estimating the mean age of marriage at 17 years while child marriages (where at least one participant is under 18) account for 43 percent of all marriages, which plays a part in the gender gap in education. “When a girl becomes an adult or a teenager, their parents, especially their father, can force a girl to marry, even with a 65-year-old man," says Nahid Alawi, a teacher at the school. The school may not be able to interfere in family matters, but its mission is to support those girls who put their foot down.

EDITORIALS The burqa of secularism

arendra Modi has stirred up another controversy with his burqa of secularism phrase. He says the Congress dons it and takes cover in a bunker whenever it is faced with a crisis. Well, this is no polemic for or against any party. But both these parties have failed in keeping to that ideal that keeps this nation united. Modi and his party have been vociferous about their stand. Modi has in fact declared that he is a Hindu nationalist. Therein lies their chief burden that like a millstone wears them out and slows them down: the feeling they project that anyone other than Hindus won’t come good in a nation that they head. Their ways may have worked in select parts. But the nation as a whole won’t buy it. Agreed that India was the target of marauders for long, but

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that was a long time ago. And those who came and stayed: if you look closely you will ﬁnd, whatever be the religion, there are certain and sure signs that their religion and practices have imbibed Indian ways. So trying to sell the people of this nation the Hindu card won’t sell. And the professed protectors of secularism shall remember that when Modi’s star began to rise in Gujarat, in a way they took cue and took to Hindu appeasing. They may deny it boisterously now, but the fact is that they did. Leave the ideal of secularism to the people; without the help of leaders and politicians they know it well enough. But let’s talk of price rise, a ﬂailing economy, the spiralling value of rupee. Can either the ruling front or the contender do anything about that?

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campus

MUM’S THE WORD

Natvarya-a mime workshop by Indian Mime Academy. Where: Sutradhar school of acting, Nampally When: Till July 20, 6 pm to 9 pm

SIMPLE YET STRIKING

STREET CAUSE Connoisseurs of fashion assembled for the Calantha fashion event that showcased the creations of Hamstech’s graduating students.

Fashion flair AMY ROSE THOMAS amyrose.t@postnoon.com

lamour, glitz and bling were the key ingredients at Calantha fashion event that showcased the creations of Hamstech’s graduating students. Economics of Design was the theme of the show and models who were flown down from Mumbai and Bangalore were seen sashaying down the ramp wearing bright, chic attires. Die-hard fashion followers and connoisseurs were in attendance at the do that was held at N-convention hall. Fashion designer Neeta Lulla was mentor to the students while Prakash Bidippa choreographed the event. Bollywood actors Sohail Khan, Ashmit Patel and Yash Tonk were some of the celebrity guests at the show. Students of Hamstech adhered to the international forecast for fashion sil-

houette and colours, and their creations gathered appreciation from the audience. Ajitha Reddy, founder and director of Hamstech, said, “We wanted to focus on wearable garments and kept the price in check. The price of the outfits ranged from `3,500 to `8,000. Cocktail dresses, wedding attires, evening gowns and formal clothes were some of the styles under which presentations were made. Students were judged on their design sensibilities, economic viability, the texture used and overall eight awards were given out for outstanding creations.” Students were placed with prominent designers in the City so that they could learn the craft and get a practical approach to their work. “We access the students throughout their three year stint in the college and place them in the area best suited for them. Those who are good at talking is placed in

the marketting sector, while those who have an eye for make-up are further trained to be in a stylist. Those with the knack for design are sent to be mentored by prominent designers like Anand Kabra, Asmita Marwa and Neeta Lulla,” Ajitha says. All in all, Calantha provided students of Hamstech a platform where they showed their talent and earned praises for it.

HOWZZAT Street Cause, a student NGO, is organising a friendly cricket match on July 27 and 28 at NTR Stadium, Lower tank bund to raise funds for the underprivileged. Cash prize worth of 20,000 will be given out for the winner’s team. Registration fee for the event is 1,000 per team. For further details contact: Bhargav - 9703671916 Tejaswi - 8790693896

COLLEGE OF THE WEEK

UTM

or Universiti Teknologi Malaysia is the oldest public engineering and technological university in Malaysia. The university specialises in technical studies, with separate faculties for the various engineering divisions such as Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical and Biomedical engineering. It also has faculties for Education, Pure Sciences, Management, and Human Resources Development.

TRENDING...

Social media may have to reconsider its reputation as the great equaliser: according to a new study, college students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely than their wealthier peers to communicate and share on Facebook, behavior the study’s author argues could in turn be detrimental to academic performance and social life. Purdue University Libraries Associate Professor Reynol Junco surveyed 2,359 college students with an average age of 22 years old to understand how gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status affected their time spent on and usage of the social networking site.

MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

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THAT 70S SHOW

Turn up in your favourite ‘70s ensemble and rock the show at Rain. The pub is hosting Retro night tonight.

POOL PARTY

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DISCUSSION TIME

The inaugural edition of the Abhyaas iConnex — a corporate-college conclave — was held at Hotel Avasa on Sunday. The theme of the ﬁrst panel discussion was: Are we placing all our eggs in one basket?

HEALTHY LIVING

Actor Ram Charan Teja, Upasana Kamineni, sportsperson Sania Mirza and Lt. Gen SN Mehta made their presence felt at the ﬂag off ceremony of Military College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering’s diamond jubilee celebrations. 5K and 2K health runs were conducted as part of the festivities.

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health

AIR POLLUTION KILLS OVER TWO MILLION EACH YEAR Human-caused outdoor air pollution in the form of particulates may be responsible for over two million deaths worldwide — a large number of them in South Asia and East Asia — each year, US researchers have said.

UNDERSTANDING YOUR EYES: PART I

Overview

he human eye belongs to the “camera-type eyes” group found in nature. It isn't only necessary for vision; the human eye helps in colour differentiation, perception of depth and regulation of the body clock. Eye colour is created by the type and amount of pigment in the iris. Multiple genes inherited from both parents determines eye colour.

CLEAR VISION

The human eye is a wonderful sense organ. It processes light and colour, allowing us to see clearly. Here's a look at your window to the world.

The amazing eye

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ight passes through the pupil, is focused by the lens and gets projected onto the inner lining of the eye, which is covered with light sensitive cells together called the retina. The retina converts light into electrical impulses. These impulses are carried to the brain by the optic nerve. The brain translates the impulses into images. Colour differentiation is due to rods and cones, the two main types of light-sensitive cells in the retina. Rods help in seeing monochrome colour in poor light, while cones are used for seeing colour and finer details

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DID YOU KNOW?

The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body. The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times powerful than they need to be. Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts. The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour. A normal lifespan will bring you almost 24 millions images of the world around you. Everyone is colour blind at birth. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing. If given enough time to adjust, the human eye can see almost as well as an owl’s. The cornea is the only part of the human body that has no blood supply. A fingerprint has 40 different unique characteristics. An iris has 256, hence the growing use of iris scans for security purposes. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million colours.

PIONEERS

Skimble

Lissencephaly

Blondes have more hair

Theodor Billroth

Skimble is a motivation and ﬁtness instruction platform with a “Workout Trainer” that offers hundreds of workouts, which are guided by dynamic audio and visuals aimed at giving aspiring health nuts an easy way to exercise, regardless of how much time they have, or what equipment they have close at hand.

Lissencephaly, which literally means smooth brain, is a rare brain formation disorder caused by defective neuronal migration during the 12th to 24th weeks of gestation resulting in a lack of development of brain folds (gyri) and grooves (sulci). Children with lissencephaly generally have signiﬁcant developmental delays, but these vary greatly from child to child depending on the degree of brain malformation and seizure control.

The average human head has 1,00,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a person’s lifetime. Blondes average 1,46,000 follicles. Those with brown hair tend to have around 1,00,000 follicles. Redheads have the least dense hair, averaging about 86,000 follicles.

Christian Albert Theodor Billroth was a Prussian-born Austrian surgeon and amateur musician. As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. He was directly responsible for a number of landmarks in surgery, including the first esophagectomy (1871), the first laryngectomy (1873), and most famously, the first successful gastrectomy (1881) for gastric cancer.

MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

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

VANGUARD OF CHANGE

Winds of change

Women-only cyber cafes!

ranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani has spoken in favour of a more moderate dress code for women and expressed objections against government meddling in the private lives of Iranians. “I warn that defining modesty based on hijab may be wrong. Many of our women do not observe the appropriate legal hijab but they are following the codes of modesty”, Rouhani said.

Breaking boundaries

fter special buses, railway coaches and colleges, women-only cyber cafes are now being planned for the city’s suburbs to ensure secure internet accessibility to them.”Women in general, and more so in the suburbs, do not use cyber cafes much for a variety of reasons, even though they may be conversant with computers and the internet,” Santhosh Kumar Subramanian of start-up firm EmpowHer.The company aims to create safe, comfortable and information-rich spaces for women.The project is planned for city suburbs like Tambaram or small towns like Kanchipuram on the outskirts of Chennai. IANS

or the first time ever, the Pakistan’s military will include women. The country’s first group of female paratroopers completed their training last week, with Captain Kiran Ashraf being declared the best paratrooper from the batch of 24 women. Captain Sadia became the first woman officer to jump from a MI-17 helicopter. It is being hailed as a “landmark achievement” for the deeply conservative Muslim country. AFP

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It was destiny that you would discriminate against us to try to force your way inside the bodies of Texas women...thank you for being you, Texas legislature.

I want education for the sons and daughters of all the Taliban. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there is a gun in my hands and he stands in front of me. I would not shoot him. Malala Yousafzai

Sarah Slamen

The girl who got shot by Taliban

Activist

TAKING ACTION

UNDER ATTACK

Stricter anti-rape laws in Uttar Pradesh

Mother of three faces prison for self defence

arissa Alexander, 31, has been sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for firing the wall to scare off her husband who she was feeling threatened by. She was found guilty for committing an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A judge threw out Alexander’s “stand your ground” self-demesne claim, noting that she could have run out of the house to escape her husband but instead got the gun and went back inside.

THE WAY FORWARD OPEN AID

penaid is an international, non-profit organisation based in Thailand. They have partnered with 1000 villages in and around Thailand to prevent women and young girls from being forced into prostitution. They rescue and offer life skills training to those already caught in the industry. They also mentor, fund and help create socially and economically strong living.

An Afghan woman receives food from the Jama’at-e Eslah group during Ramzan in Afghanistan.

Texas passes strong anti-abortion law

Pro-choice activists say the new measure will force all but five of Texas’ 42 abortion providers to close.

he Texas senate has approved a bill setting some of the strictest limits on abortion in the United States, just weeks after a filibuster by opposition Democrats dramatically thwarted the measure. The bill — similar to the one that state Senator Wendy Davis helped block in a 13hour filibuster on June 25 — was approved 19-11, with one Democrat joining the Republican majority, local media reported. Pro-choice advocates filled the spectator gallery and held rallies outside, but were unable to prevent the bill from being approved. Republican Governor Rick

Perry has vowed to sign the bill into law. “Today the Texas Legislature took its final step in our historic effort to protect life,” Perry tweeted. The bill includes a ban on abortions starting at 20 weeks after conception, unless the woman’s health is in imminent danger. It sets strict requirements for doctors performing abortions and mandates that a doctor must be present when a woman takes a pill to induce an abortion. Unlike the June 25 session, when a raucous gallery crowd was key in preventing the vote from being held on time, last week the State was swarming with state troopers. Police also checked bags and

took out items that could be thrown, including bottles suspected of containing excrement and urine, the Houston Chronicle reported. Democrat Royce West vowed a legal challenge on the Senate floor. “There will be a lawsuit. I promise you.” Prochoice activists say the new measure will force all but five of Texas’s 42 abortion providers to close. In the first half of 2013 measures restricting abortion have been approved in 18 US states. Despite heated opposition to the procedure from social conservatives, polls consistently show that a majority of Americans support legalized abortion. AFP

Faced with public outrage at growing incidents of crime against women, the Uttar Pradesh government Friday said it was considering slapping the National Security Act (NSA) on those attacking and assaulting women. Stricter action was also being taken against errant police officials for failing in their duties, said government officials. The stringent NSA provides for preventive detention for reasons like maintaining security, public order and so on. IANS

ON THE FRONTLINES BILLIE JEAN KING

he tennis legend has won 20 Wimbledon titles, fought for equal prize money for male and female players and in 1973 famously beat Bobby Riggs, a former Wimbledon men’s singles champion, for a $100,000 prize in a match dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes” after he taunted her that men were superior athletes.

MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

Entertainment THE BIGGER PICTURE

EGE nears completion

he principal shooting of Sumanth, Pinky Savika starrer Emo Gurram Egaravacchu is nearing completion. So far, almost 90 per cent of the film has been completed and the film unit will soon head to USA to can few more scenes. Chandra Siddhartha has directed this romantic comedy that deals with what marriage means to the youngsters today. The film will release soon.

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CINE BYTES

Nikesha Patel to sizzle in Om

ikesha Patel is all set to make a big splash in Telugu. After almost two years after making her debut, she’ll soon be seen in Kalyan Ram’s upcoming ﬁlm Om. "First time I'm ever wearing a bikini for any ﬁlm! Complete different attire! Om# releasing 19th! (sic)" she posted on Twitter.

Ramayya Vastavayya’s audio launch in August

he audio of NTR, Samantha and Shruti Haasan starrer Ramayya Vastavayya is likely to be launched in the second week of August. Directed by Harish Shankar, the ﬁlm is expected to be a high voltage action entertainer and NTR is playing the role of a college student. The ﬁlm is being shot in Hyderabad. Thaman is scoring the music.

Entertainment MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

SCORING GOLD

CINE BYTES

Sensuality a key element in D-Day: Shruti Haasan

ctress Shruti Haasan, who plays a prostitute in her upcoming release D-Day, shot some bold scenes with Arjun Rampal for the film. She asserts that sensuality is a key element of her character, and says it hasn’t been used just for titillation. “We’ve not done it for titillation or unnecessary scandalising. The character is like that," the actor said. IANS

No family business on screen for Soha!

er mother Sharmila Tagore is a veteran actress, and her brother Saif Ali Khan and sister-in-law Kareena Kapoor are top actors, yet Soha says none of her family members is interested to work with one another. “We are not actually very interested to work with each other on screen. We are actors and I can play anybody’s daughter or wife on screen," she said. IANS

‘Farhan is fabulous in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’

mints `8.5 crore on opening day

akeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, deemed a moving and inspirational life story of Indian sprinter Milkha Singh, managed an impressive `8.5 crore business on its opening day. The movie, which released on Friday, features Farhan Akhtar as the Flying Sikh, and he is said to have got as real as it gets for the role. A paid preview of the movie on Thursday minted `1.5 crore, and the buzz for the movie only ended up getting a boost. On its opening day, the movie made `8.5 crores across India, where it opened in 1,500 screens. According to trade analyst Taran

Adarsh, “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag had an amazing pick-up in evening shows on Friday". Confirming the same, Piyush Raizada, director, Delight Cinemas, told IANS: “It

had a good occupancy on Friday, and it will do well this weekend.” Co-produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures, the movie was much-awaited ever since it was announced, and then its powerful and clean-cut trailer opened to viewers. Farhan’s performance, which is a result of several personal sessions with the man himself — Milkha Singh, has been immensely appreciated, while actresses Sonam Kapoor and Divya Dutta also made their mark with small, but meaningful performances. Members of the film fraternity have been heaping praises on the project, with some saying, it will “go down in history". IANS

ctress Vidya Balan, paired opposite director-actor Farhan Akhtar in the movie Shaadi Ke Side Effects, lauded the actor’s performance in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. “I have just seen the movie and he has done a fabulous job as Milkha Singh," Balan said on the sidelines of the launch of artist Sohini Mukhopadhyay’s album. IANS

Entertainment MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

A FITTING TRIBUTE

CINE BYTES

Next James Bond film to be titled Devil May Care?

irector Sam Mendes and actor Daniel Craig are back with 24th ﬁlm in the James Bond ﬁlm series. It is reportedly titled Devil May Care. "I am very much looking forward to taking up the reins again and to working with Daniel Craig and producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for a second time," contactmusic.com quoted Mendes as saying. IANS

eyonce called for a moment of silence for Trayvon Martin during a concert just hours after George Zimmerman was found not guilty by a Florida jury. The pop star took a moment to honour the teen during her concert on Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. After asking the crowd to be silent for a moment, she sang the chorus of I Will Always Love You, a song written by country music star Dolly Parton and brought to a global audience by the late Whitney Houston, before transitioning into her hit Halo. It was just one of several reactions from celebrities and artists following Zimmerman's acquittal earlier Saturday evening. Zimmerman had been charged with seconddegree murder after shooting and killing the unarmed 17year-old in February 2012.

B E Y O N C E' S moment of silence for Trayvon Martin

When Demi Lovato felt like a parent

inger Demi Lovato has not even crossed the age of 20, but as a judge on reality show The X Factor, she experiences maternal feelings. “I just got to see Fifth Harmony’s music video and I, literally when I started watching it, I started tearing up,” accesshollywood.com quoted Lovato as saying. IANS

Mariah Carey discharged from hospital

inger Mariah Carey, who was hospitalised for a dislocated shoulder, posted a video of herself while making an exit from the facility. The clip was posted on Youtube Thursday. She is seen sitting on a wheelchair wearing a maxi tank dress, reports people.com. "Well, that was fun. It was harrowing,” she said. Carey was left injured while shooting a music video directed by her husband Nick Cannon. IANS

MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

Chai Time

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel, Czech playwright

KAKURO

QUICK CROSSWORD

SUDOKU How to play kakuro Kakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is also suitably different. The key question: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well here are the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers. However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number. Within each collection of cells — called a run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once. Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly: In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. This means that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on... So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is done through elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work out the answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid combinations, and hence the answer for this particular run. Note the second cell in row two — it contains two numbers, 30 and 11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the 11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.

ACROSS

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1 Rose oil 6 Make confused 11 Fathers and sons 14 “Blue Jean” singer David 15 Burdened 16 “Who ___ to judge?” 17 Difficult thing to write with? 19 Penpoint 20 “Isn’t She ___?” (Stevie Wonder) 21 In a peculiar way 23 Staunch supporter, essentially 26 Mason’s tool 27 Honors with ridicule 28 Less binding 30 Lost-and-found containers 31 Eliminate, as undesirables 32 Babysitter’s bane 35 Word with “Faithful” or “Glory” 36 “College” member who votes for president 38 As well 39 Rich-textured Norwegian rug 40 Appears bigger and bigger? 41 Auction necessities 42 Get under one’s skin 44 Long-legged creatures on the beach 46 Air traffic control devices 48 Doctor’s signboard 49 Prefix with “red” or “structure” 50 Small songbirds 52 Cote sound 53 Easily reached 58 “And what if ___?” 59 Inventor Nikola 60 Creepy 61 Badminton barrier 62 Meat-___ (non-vegetarian) 63 Email command

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1 “Dancing With the Stars” network 2 Prominent rock 3 Defunct airline 4 Lacking direction 5 “60 Minutes” segment 6 Birch tree 7 “James and the Giant Peach” author 8 “Saving Private Ryan”re-enactment 9 “Funeral in Berlin” writer Deighton 10 Check signer 11 Penmanship 12 “J’Accuse” writer Zola 13 Female fortuneteller 18 A couple of December days 22 She’s a real deer 23 ___ Day (tree-planting occasion) 24 Embroidered napkin 25 In all ways possible 26 “And miles ___ before I sleep” 28 Filthy ___ (illicit gain) 29 After-dinner scraps 31 Bell’s sound 33 Fashion show strutter 34 Band after bandits 36 Fancy word for intermission 37 Permits 41 Wailer of Irish folklore 43 Canal zone? 44 “Pet” that needs plenty of water 45 Country great Tex 46 Castor bean product 47 Battery terminal 48 Headhunter’s weapon 50 Starting gate at Pimlico 51 Land in the ocean 54 Grazing field 55 Surrealist Jean 56 Zippo or nada 57 “L.A. Law” co-star Susan

Chai Time MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013 Thiruvaikumar

STAR POWER for 16-7-2013

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

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Couples need to maintain a cordial relationship. Employees need to obey their superior at office to gain a name and get their demands fulfilled. A soft and sweet approach will yield expected results in undertaken challenging tasks.

STRIP TEASE AGNES

Never deviate from the plan in order to achieve success. Employees need to plan all work properly with time-bound deadlines. Businessmen must avoid new efforts for the time being. Avoid criticising others, it might bounce back.

Health needs attention. Selfconfidence level will be at its high so that undertaken work will be completed with perfection. Avoid sharing family secrets. Businessmen need to work nonstop to achieve desired results.

Good effects are likely to increase, which will keep you cheerful. Avoid being stubborn for the time being. Children will make you proud. Govt officials must be careful in discharging their duties as negligence might spell trouble.

Misunderstanding between couples will end. Problems faced by employees at workplace created by rumour mongers will be resolved. Trouble and tension you have because of family problems will end. Your skills will be exposed.

Respect suggestions of your spouse. Adjust well with all family members to retain peaceful atmosphere at home. There is a need to adopt the slow-andsteady policy to achieve your goals. Employees should not dominate colleagues.

Those trying for a new job will get good news. Your skills and administrative abilities will be appreciated. Elevation and pay hikes are likely for employees. Colleagues will co-operate and you will also get support of superiors.

Act with caution to avoid trouble in future. Obstacles in implementing your growth plans will be tackled well and set goals can be achieved. Avoid acting in haste or with overconfidence, as if you alone know all worldly issues well.

Employees need to complete important work without entrusting them to others. Never allow others to feel that you boast. Working with patience and proper plan will yield good results. Be careful while driving as a minor accident is likely.

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ARIES:

GEMINI:

Four of Pentacles – You have done some good work but may need to promote yourself in a good way. Campaign for a good cause and you will get supporters.

LEO:

Nine of Cups – There will be more opportunities later in life. So, do not cry over what you may have missed in the last few days. You will get what is due to you.

LIBRA:

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

Five of Wands – You will have to mend a fight with a close friend. You cannot stay in a state of conflict for a long time. It will ruin your peace of mind.

SAGITTARIUS:

King of Pentacles – You can look forward to launch a parallel career in an area that’s very different to your current career. You will discover a new talent.

TAURUS:

The Magician – Someone will make a suggestion, which will be very useful for you. Do not allow ego to come in the way of a good idea.

CANCER:

Five of Pentacles – Value your friends, family and other close relationships. They will support you unconditionally. Stay with them and heed their advice.

VIRGO:

Ten of Cups – You need to juggle around your daily schedule in such a way that boredom does not set it. You need to rotate the tasks in an interesting way.

SCORPIO:

Ten of Pentacles – There is a raw beauty in nature and you want to capture that in creative and innovative ways. Let your creative juices flow. Paint, write poetry.

CAPRICORN:

Two of Pentacles – Balance is an art you need to develop. Do not get overexcited about something in the immediate future. It will not last long.

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PISCES:

Queen of Pentacles – You tend to have a very sharp tongue. You will hurt close friends with your arrogance and your insensitivity to others’ feelings.

NUMBER GAME

– A new vehicle purchase is on the cards. You may take this vehicle out on a long drive. Enjoy the attention but also stick to traffic rules.

SCRABBLE

AQUARIUS: Four of Wands

POOCH CAFE

You need to practice yoga or mediation. Your self-confidence and boldness will be at a high with which you complete all work successfully and feel relaxed. Avoid unwanted apprehension, which might actually bog you down.

for 16-7-2013

King of Cups – You may want to cut down on unnecessary expenses. You have a very philosophical attitude towards money. This won’t always work.

NON SEQUITUR

Suitable approach will ensure that your work is done successfully. Troubles at workplace will end. At the same time avoid criticising management. Be careful while expressing your opinions as it might not be taken in the right spirit.

SUDOKU

Avoid hasty decisions and negligence. Employees will feel relaxed as problems with colleagues end. They will be bold and more confident now. All disappointments you have faced so far will be over and you will feel relaxed now.

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Entertainment MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

TWIST IN THE PATH

CINE BYTES

Zoe Saldana enjoyed working at burger chain Kesha keen to judge a talent show

s a teenager, actress Zoe Saldana used to work at fast food chain Burger King. She says the experience was enjoyable. Before her career took off, the Avatar actress worked at the fast food chain. “When I was in my teens, I had a job at Burger King, which I really enjoyed. Then one day I was in the middle of a transaction and realised I didn’t enjoy it any more. I said to the manager there and then, ‘Can you finish this?’ and quit,” contactmusic.com quoted Saldana as saying. Sharing her journey there after, she said: “I planned to go to college to train as a dancer, but instead I joined a theatre troop in Brooklyn (New York) and little by little things started to happen. “I wish I was the sort of person who has the strategic mindset of making plans and drawing up lists, but I’m not.” The 35-year-old, also said that she is attracted to openminded people. “I don’t like to put labels on people because I don’t like people to put labels on me. But if I have to pick one quality, I would say the people I’m attracted to are naturally inquisitive and open-minded and want to grow,” she said. “I must say those people tend to be geeks like me. I used to hang out with cool people, but after a while I found there were such one trick ponies, I was just getting bored,” added Saldana. IANS

inger Kesha says she would love to join a talent show as a judge sometime, but for now, she is too busy with her world tours. “One day I would love to do something like that, but right now I’m travelling the world and playing my new record, which I thoroughly enjoy,” entertainmentwise.com quoted Ke$ha as saying. “But when I’m done with that then, maybe yeah, sure,” she said. IANS

Salma Hayek suffered stage fright

uring her teenage days, actress Salma Hayek was so scared of performing on stage in front of people in her native Mexico, that she tried to even run away once. “I was 18 and I was playing Jasmine in a production of Aladdin. I ran with the Jasmine outﬁt out onto the street, they got me back and put me (on stage),” contactmusic.com quoted Hayek as saying. IANS

Selena Gomez finds fans’ tattoos weird

inger-actress Selena Gomez ﬁnds it weird when enthusiastic fans get tattoos of her face or name on their body part and then show them off to her. “I’ve had somebody tattoo me on their leg actually. That was pretty intense,” femaleﬁrst.co.uk quoted Gomez as saying. A young female admirer proudly showed Gomez a tattoo she had gotten of her name, on her lower back. IANS

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MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

PAKISTAN IN THE WEST INDIES

Afridi guides Pak to victory Afridi returned the best-ever ODI bowling figures by a Pakistani in snaring seven for 12 to rout the home side for just 98. GEORGETOWN: Shahid Afridi made one of the more remarkable comebacks in international cricket in leading Pakistan to a crushing 126-run victory over the West Indies in the first one-day international at the Guyana National Stadium on Sunday. Omitted from his country’s failed Champions Trophy campaign, the mercurial allrounder returned the best-

ever ODI bowling figures by a Pakistani, and the second best overall, in snaring seven for 12 to rout the home side for just 98 off 41 overs after having top-scored with a typically swashbuckling 76 in the visitors’ total of 224 for nine. “I try hard and I back myself and I want to thank people back home,” said Afridi. “It’s not time for me to just

survive in the team, but to give a lot to the team. I tried to stay positive. “Whenever I got the ball in my zone I went for it. And what a pitch it was for me to bowl on. I just kept it simple, and it worked.” This match represented yet another stunning spike in the 17-year international career of Afridi whose ability to delight and entertain with his extrava-

gant manner has often been overshadowed by an almost chronic failure to deliver at the most critical of times. Fortunately for Pakistan, this was not one of those times and his impact on the match started with his domination of a 120-run sixthwicket partnership with his captain, Misbah-ul-Haq (52), the pair rescuing their team from the depths of 47 for five

after gangling fast-medium bowler Jason Holder had wrecked the top order in finishing with the excellent figures of four for 13. While Misbah laboured towards yet another workmanlike half-century, occupying 121 deliveries, Afridi’s knock was a hurricane by comparison, decorated by five sixes and six fours off just 55 deliveries.

DOPING

Athletics in a doping spiral American Tyson Gay and Jamaican Asafa Powell were found to have used banned substances. BARNABY CHESTERMAN Agence France-Presse PARIS: Less than a month away from the World Championships in Moscow, sprinting has succumbed once again to the shame of doping as American Tyson Gay and Jamaican Asafa Powell were caught out. The 30-year-old Gay insisted he made a mistake in erroneously trusting someone he shouldn’t have. Powell confirmed he too had failed a dope test, one of five Jamaicans reportedly to have done so at their country’s national trials. The 2007 world champion Gay would have gone into the worlds not as favourite, but as close a fancied challenger to Usain Bolt as anyone could be. He had posted the fastest 100m time of the year with 9.75sec, almost two tenths quicker than Bolt’s best effort in 2013. Alongside Yohan Blake, who has been suffering with a thigh injury this season, Gay is the second fastest man of all time with his 9.69sec managed in Shanghai in 2009 bettered only by Bolt himself. Powell had not qualified for the worlds but had the third fastest 100m time this year and is the fourth fastest man in history, behind Bolt, Gay and Blake. Gay was majestic in cruising to a 100m and 200m double at the American World Championship trials in June. Yet following fast on the heels of Jamaica’s double Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown’s own failed dope test, this latest

news is another crushing blow to the credibility of sprinting. There was yet more bad news to come from the Caribbean. Powell and Sherone Simpson, the 2008 Olympic women’s 100m runner-up, and member of the sprint relay goldmedal winning team in 2004, were immediately identified. “I want to be clear that I have never knowingly or wilfully taken any supplements or substances that break any rules. I am not now nor have I ever been a cheat,” insisted Powell. With a host of eastern

The impact of Gay’s doping case will be wider ranging, not least because one of the favourites to challenge Bolt in his absence will be his US compatriot Justin Gatlin. European athletes failing tests this year, including Bulgaria’s European indoor 60m champion Tezdzhan Naimova, Russian European 800m winner Yelena

Arzhakova and Russian Olympic discus silver medallist Daria Pishchalnikova, athletics is reeling. Not that athletics, and in particular sprinting, have ever been strangers to the scourge of drug use. The impact of Gay’s doping case will be wider ranging, though, not least because one of the favourites to challenge Bolt in his absence will be his US compatriot Justin Gatlin, who has already served two drug suspensions during his career. The credibility of the sprint disciplines in track and field will

now be hanging by an even thinner thread than ever before. Such high-profile cases in the past have seen Ben Johnson stripped of his Olympic 100m title with Marion Jones suffering the same fate. Kelli White lost her 100m and 200m double success in the 2003 World Championships after she was later caught doping. Other big names in the not too distant past such as Linford Christie and Dennis Mitchell have been banned while Kostas Kenteris, the Sydney 200m Olympic champion, and his countrywoman and 100m Olympic silver-medallist Ekaterina Thanou were prevented from competing at their home Games in Athens and subsequently banned for faking a motorcycle accident in order to skip a dope test. With so many of the finest sprinters of the current generation, and indeed others from recent generations, having been exposed as drug cheats, athletics, in particular sprinting, runs the risk of seeing the whole profession tarnished in the way cycling has been in the wake of its own high-profile revelations. With the likes of Tour de France winners Lance Armstrong, Jan Ulrich, Bjarne Riis and Floyd Landis all having finally admitted to doping after being banned for doing so, cycling suffers from a serious lack of trust and credibility. Yet with the Tour de France going on at the moment and no doping stories having come out so far, athletics has stepped into the scandal breach in spectacular fashion.

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MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

TOUR DE FRANCE

JOHN DEERE CLASSIC

Quintana keeps the pressure on Froome

Spieth wins John Deere Classic The 19-year-old outlasted Canada’s David Hearn and Zach Johnson.

After his stunning attack on the unclassified Col de Pailheres on stage eight, he made another remarkable solo burst on Sunday’s 15th stage. ANDY SCOTT Agence France-Presse VAISON-LA-ROMAINE: Colombia’s Nairo Quintana remains in contention to win two jerseys on his debut Tour de France after proving to be the only rider capable of even trying to keep up with Chris Froome on the climb of Mont Ventoux. After his stunning attack on the unclassified Col de Pailheres in the Pyrenees on stage eight, the 23-year-old made another remarkable solo burst on Sunday’s 15th stage. However, Quintana’s assault with 12 kilometres remaining on the seemingly never-ending Ventoux ultimately came too soon, and he ran out of steam as Froome strode clear to win the stage with just over one kilometre remaining. “I started early on the climb and had already made a massive effort so I didn’t feel good at the end,” said the Movistar rider, who added that his nose was bleeding on the ascent to the summit, which sits at almost 2,000 metres. “The idea was to come and attack to try and win the stage and I put so much into it but Froome was really strong.”

Quintana eventually came home 29 seconds behind the stage winner, but Froome later admitted that he had expected the Colombian to cross the line first and the two even exchanged words on the climb as they left everyone else trailing in their wake. “Froome was saying to me that we would both keep going to the finish and that I could win, but it was clear that he was a bit stronger,” added Quintana. As a team, Movistar’s objective changed after Alejandro Valverde’s disastrous day on

Quintana eventually came home 29 seconds behind the stage winner, but Froome later admitted that he had expected the Colombian to cross the line first Friday, when he saw his podium chances go up in smoke after breaking the back wheel of his bike on the ride from Tours to

Saint-Amand-Montrond. Now their principal aim is to get Quintana as high up the general classification as possible, and he goes into the Tour’s second rest day in sixth place overall, 5min 47sec behind Froome. Holding on to finish there in his first ever Tour de France would be a fantastic achievement, but he could also come away with the polka dot jersey and the white jersey if he can continue his current form into the coming Alpine stages. With six stages remaining, the Colombian leads Poland’s Michal Kwiatkowski by 2min 11sec in the race to be crowned this year’s best young rider. He claims that is his priority, but he also sits second in the King of the Mountains competition, 17 points behind that man Froome, so following in the footsteps of fellow countrymen Lucho Herrera and Mauricio Soler — both previous winners of the polka dot jersey — remains a real possibility. “We saw that, when it comes to climbing, Nairo is up there with Froome,” said Movistar team manager Eusebio Unzue, who also remains hopeful that his team can still record a stage win.

SILVIS: Jordan Spieth parred the fifth playoff hole Sunday to capture the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic, becoming the first teenager to win a PGA Tour event since 1931. The 19-year-old American outlasted Canada’s David Hearn and Zach Johnson in the marathon playoff for his first career title. “I just told myself ‘this is it and go for broke’. I am fortunate it ended the way it did,” Spieth said. “I owe 100 percent to my family. “I don’t even know what to say right now.” Spieth closed with his third consecutive six-under 65 to tie Hearn (69) and Johnson (68) at 19-under-par 265 at the Deere Run course. Spieth, who was the American Junior Golf Association’s player of the year in 2009, birdied five of his final six holes, including a chip in from a greenside bunker at the 18th. Martin Flores fired an eight-under 63 during his final round to jump into a share of fourth place with Daniel Summerhays and Jerry Kelly (68) at 18-under.

SCOTTISH OPEN

Mickelson heads to the Open on a high Mickelson, the highest world ranked player in the field, captured his 50th pro career success after defeating South African Branden Grace with a birdie at the first extra hole. CASTLE STUART: Phil Mickelson heads to the British Open in the best form possible after ending a 20-year European winless drought with a play-off victory in the Scottish Open on Sunday. Mickelson, the highest world ranked player in the field, captured his 50th pro career success after defeating South African Branden Grace with a birdie at the first extra hole. Both players had ended regulation play tied at 17-under par with Grace posting a 69 and finding his way into the play-off

when Mickelson horribly threeputted the last hole for bogey in a round of 68. However Mickelson then brilliantly played one of his trademark wedge shots landing his 45-yard third shot a few feet past the hole before the ball spun back to some six inches from the cup for the easiest of birdies, while Grace missed his birdie putt from 25-feet. Mickelson had lost the event in a play-off six years ago at Loch Lomond but has finally captured the event in his ninth Scottish Open appearance.

“I’ve been coming to Scotland now for quite some time and I’ve enjoyed my stay every year. I’ve had some opportunities before and I almost let it slide away today,” he said. “So to come out on top feels terrific and this Castle Stuart golf course is just wonderful and I’ve had so much fun here the last three years, so to win means a lot to me. “I was so mad at myself for losing my focus and threeputting the last hole in regulation play so I went back to the 18th hole for the play-off pretty

focussed to make a four.” Mickelson, who collected a first prize cheque for $742,800 (580,000 euros), now will stand firm as a favourite at the 142nd British Open championship starting Thursday at Muirfield to the east of Edinburgh. The American was third in the 2004 British Open at Royal Troon and joint runner-up two years ago at Royal St. George’s. “This week has been very valuable for next week as I did a lot of things well and also there are a few things I still need to work on,” he said.

URN

MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

IT ASHES 2013

ASHES FIRST TEST REVIEW

PRESS REACTION

Clarke defiant in defeat Victory saw Ashes-holders England go 1-0 up ahead of Thursday’s second Test at Lord’s but Clarke said Australia’s gutsy display was proof of their determination to regain the urn.

JULIAN GUYER Agence France-Presse NOTTINGHAM: Defiant Australia captain Michael Clarke insisted the tourists were “here to compete” after taking England to the wire before losing the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge by just 14 runs. England, who set Australia a ground record 311 to win, looked to be in total command as Clarke’s men collapsed to 231 for nine in the face of some superb swing bowling from spearhead seamer James Anderson. But a last-wicket partnership of 65 between Brad Haddin (71) and James Pattinson (25 not out) almost produced one more twist in a thrilling Test full of fluctuating fortunes, until Anderson had Haddin caught behind. Victory saw Ashes-holders England go 1-0 up in this fivematch series ahead of

Thursday’s second Test at Lord’s but Clarke said Australia’s gutsy display in Nottingham was proof of their determination to regain the urn. “I think we’ve probably proved to a few people that we’re here to compete -- there’s no doubt about it,” said Clarke. “I’m disappointed we couldn’t get over the line and I said last (Saturday) night I still thought we could win the Test match. “So we’re disappointed we haven’t won this first Test, but I hope we’ve earned a bit of respect by the way we’ve played. “Our team are going to give our all every single time we take the field. We’re here to win this series.” Australia came into this match on the back of a 4-0 loss in India and being slammed as one of the worst squads to travel to England for an Ashes series.

Clarke said he hoped Australia’s display in the most nerve-jangling Ashes encounter since England’s two run-win at Edgbaston in 2005 had altered views. “We know it’s going to be tough and we’ve just experienced that over five days, but for the people that have written us off or did write us off before a ball was bowled, I think we might have changed a few of their minds. “It’s a pretty tough loss after getting so close.” England may be bidding for a third straight Test series win over Australia -- something they haven’t managed since the

1950s -- but this was the first time in 16 years they’d won the first Test of an Ashes campaign after clinging on for draws in the previous two openers. However, England’s 1997 win at Edgbaston was merely the prelude to a 3-1 series loss while the last time England won both the first Test of an Ashes and the urn as well was a 2-1 success in Australia in 1986/87. “Credit has to go to England. They continued to fight throughout the five days and managed to get over the line,” said Clarke. “But I think our boys should hold their heads up.”

DRS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

DRS comes under scrutiny

An enthralling match, which England won by 14 runs, was beset by controversies over the use of the Decision Review System (DRS). NOTTINGHAM: If ever confirmation was needed the umpire’s decision is no longer final, at least at international level, the first Test between England and Australia at Trent Bridge provided the proof. An enthralling match, which England won by 14 runs, was beset by controversies over the use of the Decision Review System (DRS). It ended when England challenged the original verdict of experienced umpire Aleem Dar to give Brad Haddin not out after an appeal for caught behind off man-of-the-match James Anderson.

But Hot Spot technology indicated Haddin had got a thin nick to opposing wicketkeeper Matt Prior.

Ashes-holders England’s joy was unconfined, as was that of the bulk of a 17,000 capacity crowd when, after

receiving word from South African third umpire Marais Erasmus, Pakistani official Dar crossed his arms to signal a change of decision and raised his finger to give Haddin out. Yet on the third day of this match, England’s Stuart Broad got a thick edge off spinner Ashton Agar that went to Australia captain Michael Clarke at slip. Australia claimed the catch but Dar gave Broad not out. However, as Australia had used up both their two permitted reviews in the innings on incorrect challenges, the tourists couldn’t overturn Dar’s call.

British Press hails Jimmy the hero

LONDON: Britain’s newspapers revelled in England’s dramatic victory in the Ashes opener, lavishing praise on matchwinner James Anderson, whose fourwicket haul Sunday brought his total for the match to 10. But they also warned that the Australians would not be the whipping boys many predicted before the series. Aussie skipper Michael Clarke still had “plenty of hope” for the rest of the summer, they said. Monday’s Daily Telegraph and Guardian both carried a photograph of England players celebrating the winning moment on the front page. “Howzat for starters?” was the Guardian’s headline. The back-page headline of the Daily Mail read “We’ve nicked it,” a reference to defiant Australian batsman Brad Haddin’s edge which finally sealed victory. Popular tabloid the Sun carried an editorial supporting the technology which detected Haddin’s nick. “Wow...what a start to this year’s Ashes series,” it said. “A game and a rivalry built on the best kind of traditions. But entirely modern, making use of some of the most up-to-date systems in sport.” The Telegraph’s Simon Hughes celebrated England’s swing-king Anderson. “Michael Holding, the West Indies fast bowler...has a good yardstick for judging bowlers,” he wrote. “Only when one has taken at least four wickets-per-Test over a long period of time, can they be considered ‘great’. “With his 10 wickets, Jimmy Anderson nudged closer to that milestone. He is on the verge of greatness,” wrote Hughes. The Times’s Simon Barnes was even more enthusiastic, calling Anderson’s four-wicket burst on Sunday a “stupendous effort”. “Anderson will be the most succesful bowler in England’s history. And as good as any that bowled,” he wrote. Turning to the vanquished tourists, the Guardian’s Vic Marks highlighted grounds for optimism despite the 14-run defeat. “No glory for defeated Australia in first Ashes Test but plenty of hope,” he said.

MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

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PELLEGRINI TARGETS NEW BLOOD FOR CITY

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini is sure he will add to his attacking options before the start of the new season. City are keen to add to their strike force after selling Mario Balotelli and Carlos Tevez to AC Milan and Juventus since the start of the year.

ARSENAL IN INDONESIA

‘It was like watching Brazil’ Unveiling their yellow shirts and blue shorts in Jakarta, Arsenal academy whizz-kids Chuba Akpom and Kristoffer Olsson scored on their first-team debuts as Arsenal poured on six goals after half-time. ARLINA ARSHAD Agence France-Presse JAKARTA: Arsenal donned their new, Brazil-style away kit and played like five-time world champions as they blew away the Indonesia Dream Team 7-0 at the start of their Asian tour on Sunday. Unveiling their yellow shirts and blue shorts in Jakarta, academy whizz-kids Chuba Akpom and Kristoffer Olsson scored on their first-team debuts as Arsenal poured on six goals after half-time. England striker Theo Walcott got the opener on 19 minutes, Olivier Giroud grabbed a rapid-fire double and Lukas Podolski and fringe midfielder Thomas Eisfeld both scored late on. Fittingly for the occasion, it was exhibition stuff and eclipsed English champions Manchester United, who lost 1-0 to the Singha All-Star XI in Bangkok in their first game under new boss David Moyes on Saturday. Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea all have new managers this season, giving Arsenal hope that their stability under Arsene Wenger can finally help them end an

COSAFA CUP

Zambia, Lesotho through to semis Title-holders Zimbabwe will be the last-four opponents of Lesotho on Wednesday before Zambia tackle South Africa in the main attraction of a double-header. DAVID LEGGE Agence France-Presse

eight-year trophy drought. “It was a good game tonight, good technical skill. We could test some young players tonight," said Wenger. “It’s a positive night in a friendly environment. We were welcomed fantastically. I felt a little bit like we played like at home, such big support." The yellow-shirted visitors

laid siege to the Dream Team goal from the start and academy striker Akpom, 17, passed up two good chances in the early minutes. The Dream Team were largely chasing shadows but they escaped to half-time without further damage — before the floodgates opened as Wenger threw on first-team regulars

including Podolski, Giroud and Tomas Rosicky. The inexperienced Dream Team were given some unsporting boos by the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium crowd as they ran out of legs against the Premier League outfit. And Arsenal finished with a flourish of three goals inside the last seven minutes.

BUNDESLIGA PREVIEW

Bayern sign Barça prodigy

BERLIN: Bayern Munich have signed Spain Under-21 captain Thiago Alcantara from Barcelona on a four-year contract in a deal worth 25 million euros ($32.6 million), the European champions confirmed Sunday. New Bayern coach Pep Guardiola had said last Wednesday that “it was Thiago or nobody” on his wish list of new players at the Champions League winners and the midfielder, who had also been linked with a move to Manchester United, will fly to Munich for his medical in the

Bayern will pay 20 mn euros for Thiago Alcantara with the extra five million coming from a future friendly match between the two clubs. coming days. Bayern will pay 20 million euros for the 22-year-old with the extra five million coming from a future friendly match

between the two clubs. Thiago scored a first-half hat-trick for Spain in the final of last month’s European Under21 Championships to claim a 4-

2 win over Italy. “Thiago Alcantara was the main wish of our new coach Pep Guardiola," said Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. “We are pleased that we succeeded in making this great transfer happen. “Thiago has only just been elected the best player of the Under-21 European Championship. He is a fantastic player with great perspective, which will strengthen Bayern." Bayern claimed their sixth win from their sixth pre-season friendly with a 4-0 win at third division side Hansa Rostock.

KITWE: Hosts Zambia took a smooth route and Lesotho a bumpier one to the Cosafa Cup semi-finals Sunday. A 3-1 win over Mozambique did not flatter the Chipolopolo (Copper Bullets) as they dominated from start to finish before a sell-out 10,000 Kitwe crowd. Giantkillers Lesotho followed up a shock first place in Group B by pipping Angola 5-3 on penalties after having the better of a 1-1 draw. Title-holders Zimbabwe will be the last-four opponents of Lesotho on Wednesday before Zambia tackle South Africa in the main attraction of a doubleheader. Zimbabwe have won the southern Africa national team championship a record four times and South Africa and Zambia three times each. Lesotho came closest to glory 13 years ago when they reached the final only to suffer 3-0 home and away beatings by Zimbabwe under a different format. After three tight quarterfinals in capital Lusaka and mining city Kitwe, Zambia took just 28 minutes at Nkana Stadium to all but wrap up victory. Striker Bornwell Mwape converted a penalty on 14 minutes after midfielder Momed Hagi floored striker Festus Mbewe as the ball ran loose. And the home team, returning to Nkana Stadium after a 15year absence, doubled their advantage with a surprise Jimmy Chisenga goal. The full-back floated a cross to the far post and it dipped behind goalkeeper Gervasio Cossa into the net. Mbewe was foiled by the woodwork and teenage substitute striker Moses Phiri by a marginal offside call.